[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

In addition to Starglow there’s lens flare and RGB split. The rainbow-like effects come from lens flare chroma hoop and displacing the individual channels of (a blurred copy of) the text by different amounts.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

What is your expression?

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

[Nicolas Guionnet] “I couldn’t increase the number of dots.”

Same here. It could be the Math.floor statement. I thought I had some logical reason to put it in, but maybe it is unnecessary. You can try it without.

Or then it is a limitation in math accuracy, considering all points are getting drawn in within a single frame. In which case the formula itself will need to be modified, or possibly the frame rate decreased to allow for more accurate calculation. You could make it 1 fps, output as frames, and import as footage into a new comp.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Move seedRandom(index, true) in the beginning of the expression and add the random y and z definitions before the minEndVal declaration line.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Not sure what is different, so here’s my project file you can investigate.

13257_lambda01.aep.zip

By the way, I’m pretty sure this isn’t set up how it is supposed to be. I have lambda changing from 0 to 30 in each frame and time changing in steps along the timeline. But at least it gives a curve of some kind.

It should be possible to trace a surface over time if this was set up differently, i.e. t going from 0 to 10 each frame and lambda changing over time and having the particles persist, rather than last for just one frame.

Since I don’t know how this is actually supposed to look, this is conjecture.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

I would expect that a simple sphere emitter should work fine, direction set to outwards.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Position subframe should be set to “exact”, that way Particular will calculate subframe particle positions accurately.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Try precomping the layer with masks inside the precomp, the effect outside it.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

You don’t put that in the expression, you keyframe the sliders.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Did have to fix two lines in the expression though.

X = text.sourceText;//<<<<Added this line
F = Math.round(time*effect("Blink Speed")("Slider") % 1);
L = X.length;
T = time*effect("Speed")("Slider") - effect("Start At")("Slider")*effect("Speed")("Slider");

Cursor = " ";
if (F==1 | T>0) Cursor = "|";
if(F==1 |(T==0){Cursor="|";}else{Cursor=" ";}//<<<< T==0

if (T>0 ) X.substr(0,T) + Cursor
else Cursor

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer