Hello there, I’m working on a project with falling alphabet style confetti, but I’d to be able to limit the rotation, so the particles don’t go upsidedown, or rotate away from the camera, while maintaining the natural falling motion.

I’m not sure that’s possible without x-Particles, but if anyone has any neat ideas, I’d be greatful for the help.

Thank you!

Hello there,

In your case, a particle system would be helpful, but you might not have access to that.

The way I would approach this would be by slowly building up layers of arrows via pre-comping. I’ve made an example AE project below for you:

To create the spirals of arrows, I would just take the same approach again, but this time, instead of…

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Hello, I just wrote a script that allows you to target a specific effect across all comps. This should work just fine for your needs.

var effectName = prompt("Name of effect", "Hue/Saturation");
var effectNameStr = effectName.toString();
var projItem = app.project.items;
var counter = 0;
for (i = 1; i < app.project.items.length; i++) {
    // Check if…

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I actually managed to get to the bottom of my question.

It turns out there’s a method called frameToPng() which takes a couple of arguments that specify the time and output location. Very handy.

Hello,

I’m new to the forum and I’m interested in AE scripting! I hope I’m putting my question in the right place.

I’m currently developing a AE script and I had a passing interest in how I might go about using Extendscript to create screenshots of my comp, then reimporting them, without having to go through the render queue.

One script… Read more