This is currently the closest I got to an answer:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/is-it-possible-to-use-keyboard-shortcuts-for-cep-panel-s-function-when-the-panel-is-out-of-focus/m-p/13238341

But until now I could not make those solutions work for me…

Hi Hector, sorry for answering so late. the notify me of new replies does not seam to work for me.

So thanks for the link, but “How to undock panels?” is not really what I was looking for. My question was more: “How to activate an extension panel with a hotkey?”

Hi!

I am working on an extension for after effects and I am searching for a way to set a hotkey that will “activate” the my docked extension panel and then jump to an entryfield within the panel.

That might sound easy, but actually I talked to a lot of developers and all of them said it is impossible. It would only work for a script with an non…

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Hi Usama,

thanks for your input! Here are some comments on them:

– the resolution of the image is much higher than the voxel resolution can get even close to.

– yes. adding noise to the voxels… I tried that, but the stepping is too intense. so the noise needs to be soo intense to “break” the stepping that there is no image-texture-based-look left…

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Thank you my Master! May the force be with you, aswell!

Good to know! Maybe with those types, in some kind of custom node based rig, something like this would be possible… but thats way beyond my skillset 😉

Hi Bosten, thanks for your input on this!

About the light contribution. Yes I have all lights contribute 1. And GI is set to brute force.

About the VDB. I am not using an external VDB. Actually My setup is the same as the one in your second video. BUT. While the guy in the second video uses a rather “small” and “thick” block to put his clouds into I…

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Hi!

I have some volume cloud render difficulties I could need some help for:

Goal is getting an Earth Globe and a volumetric clouds layer that is as detailed as possible and based on a cloudanimation grayscale image-sequence. Currently built by using a 100cm sphere that gets distorted by a displacer using the cloudanimation grayscale image-sequence…

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Found a great solution:

https://www.core4d.com/ipb/forums/topic/114906-speed-up-slow-down-clones-animated-with-the-rate-value/?tab=comments#comment-734608

Hi all!

I wonder if there is a way to speed up or slow down clones that are animated with the rate value. To be more precise: If I animate clones along a spline by using the rate value, they behave like particles moving along a spline. If I now want to speed up there movement along the spline or slow it down, one might thing to just animate the…

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I found a solution! It´s the highly expensive x-particles plugin with their newest XP Open VDB Mesher: https://insydium.ltd/support-home/video-manuals/x-particles-video-manual/generators/xpopenvdb/#1309

See the result:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Da9gTbCImeX70gaKEU0UNuCI9K_KbJZA/view?usp=sharing

In the front it´s x-particles. In the back it´s th…

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Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WCf6VAUd75bAaeo3U2m8Jcje9BZymo1J/view?usp=sharing.

Hi!

since ages I wonder how to stop an animated volume mesh from jiggiling. It´s an issue with any Volume mesher I found. While adapting the mesh to the new positions of it´s root content elements the mesher creates a mesh surface that is flickering constantly:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19UBhFOGCIMcyYBsAfeCe43AdPE2xPv9G/view?usp=sharing

Does a…

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Found the solution! Although I did not want to work with X-Particles the xpSplineGrowth modifier is exactly what I am looking for!

Hi!

I am trying to now for hours to get a seamingly simple thing done:

I have build a complex setup of a spline network. I did apply some hair material to render it. And then I wanted to animate the splines/hairs to start to grow in one area of the “network” and then grow that area until all splines/hairs are at full length within the whole network.…

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