[Vlad Cohen]

WOW, thank you for the amazing suggestions — I am very grateful and very impressed!

[Vlad Cohen]

Hi, I’m having this same problem in CS5 and I don’t know how to fix it. I have three sets of images rotating around a null object like a carousel, but they overlap each other based on layer order, not z-space.

I don’t have any layer effects and I don’t think I have any duplicated elements. Does anyone have any other suggestions to fix the z-order problem? Even with splitting layers, I’m not sure how I can fix it as I have objects rotating on an angle and the overlaps don’t have clear frames between them.

Thanks so much in advance — and let me know if I can offer more information to diagnose the problem.

[Vlad Cohen]

It might not look exactly the same, but now you can simply use the regular AE motion blur and Particle World applies it like it should.

So on the layer to which you apply Particle World, enable motion blur (tick the box under the motion blur icon, which looks like three circles overlapping.) Forgive me if you know all this and I sound patronising -I’m just trying to be clear. On the other hand if you are new to AE and can’t see the icon, make sure you toggle the switches/modes button so you see all the checkboxes and not the layer blend modes.

You also need to enable motion blur for the composition, by clicking the motion blur icon in the header area above the layers.

It isn’t exactly the same as before but it is definitely a lot more streamlined.

I hope that makes sense.

[Vlad Cohen]

Thank you for the reply — these forums are an amazing resource with such helpful people.

I also got a reply on the Adobe boards which explained that the old motion blur effect can be maintained using the comp and layer motion blur switches.

So if anyone else is having trouble like I was, simply turn on the standard motion blur controls for the layer and it seems to pretty much look like the old effect from within Particle World options.

Thanks again!