Thanks so much for the info. I’ve experimented unsuccessfully with some of the settings you mention but now emboldened to try more with a better sense of direction — esp. need to look into “crease.”

Thanks again for the help!

I must be stupid – can’t find this anywhere and maybe it’s not even the right issue, but:

Is there a way to use the RS object tag to enable tessellation but retain certain defining edges? For example, we apply RG tag to a cube, enable tessellation at default settings, and the object becomes like a sphere (at render). Is there some way to gain tes…

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While typing the question, I came up with a work-around. If I make the voronoi with the text into editable, then the crumbling works when I apply the hard body tag to the grouped pieces that are created. But there should be a way to do it while keeping the text object, right?

I’m trying to get an effect of a text object crumbling apart. I want the look that happens if you simply apply Voronoi Fracture to a cube, assign a hard body simulation tag, and allow dynamics to do it’s thing: the cube crumbles apart to the floor (a plane with collider tag).

HOWEVER: if I do this with text, as soon as the dynamics is triggered,…

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Thanks for the reply! Yes, the checkbox in the locked effects panel is about as far as I got. Wish I’d thought of it before using the effect all around my precomps 😉

Is there some way to set up a checkbox or script that allows me to easily “mute” and “unmute” all occurrences of a particular plugin within a project? For example, I’m working in a project with multiple uses of a shadowing effect throughout – but it’d be nice to just switch on and off the plugin in all those occurrences at once – to speed up… Read more