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You would just keyframe the emitter “Particles/sec” for a quick fire burst of particles, and for your project would want to change the Emitter > Direction property to “Directional”
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Hi Brad. I made a project a few years ago where letters were falling out of the sky, fluttering a little by the wind. Basically, just using a sin curve to move them back and forth in x and z space, along with some y rotation.
Here’s an updated version of that project. The controller null is where you can change the how often the flutters are(_Freq) and how big they are(_Amp or _Max Tilt). In the project I uploaded, I keyframed the _Freq of each property to get it to stop fluttering. And it’s set up so that you can use position keyframes on your object to move it into place(I wasn’t sure if your screen was moving or just the background).
Take a look, it might help you on your project or give you some ideas to try out.
7171_fallingfinal.aep.zipJohnny Cuevas, Editor
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Along with the physics time factor(that’s where I would go to do this), have tried any of the time effects? Or time-remapping your explosion?
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Add a null and place it in the center of both half circles. Parent the circles to the null and then rotate the null.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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I think the white flash/lens flare should be quicker, and perhaps play with the transfer modes on it, so it interacts a little more as it leaves/fades out. But overall I like it.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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Peder Norby made this project 10 years ago to show off Particular, fireworks, smoke text. I think you might be able to modify the “Smart Bomb CCD” project to create what you need.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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I’ve got an idea of what you are trying to accomplish, but if you could upload a screen grab of your comp window, that would help in figuring out what the movement, elements and relationships…
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Save your text in photo shop as a .psd, Open AE, import the .psd and make sure to check the Layer Option “Editable Layer Styles”
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Think that’s the default for AE. You could make an animation preset for the simple star shape and use that when you need it, but if you use the star shape tool again, it reverts to whatever you created last.
The other method would be to just twirl open the polystar properties and set the points there, then the star tool will always start with the same amount of points, course that’s a couple of extra clicks opening up the properties.
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You should be able to accomplish that with the Echo Effect
Little project I did illustrating the technique: 7162_echoeffect.aep.zip
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.