Making the Lights go where you want them
by Jeff Fisher on Feb 6, 2010
Edit: Ok now I'm confused reading the coments does this not work with Cs4?
In the tut he used an expression to animate the Emiter which controls where the lights go and how they act.
I would guess if you wanted to make the lights go where you want them you would have to animate the Emiter with keyframes.
Thats what I got out of it anyways but I just got after effects 3 days ago.
Great tutorial though, I won't be using any add-ins yet until I get more of the basics down and have some cash but when I decide to do so I will for sure try this out.
I just downloaded the Trapcode particular demo. I have found that under particular type there is no option for custom, is that because its a demo? I just used the Glow Sphere so I could continue. Then when I went to render it out there was an X across the screen. It is on the layer labeled Particular, it is the same color as my color FX layer. How do I get this to go away?
@ Stefan Roth: The plug-in Andrew
by Ken Green on Oct 13, 2009
@ Stefan Roth:
The plug-in Andrew used is called Trapcode Particular.
The plug-in you are using is called Particle Systems II. These two plug-ins are not the same. Here is Trapcode Particular, which is NEEDED to do this tutorial: http://www.trapcode.com/products_particular.html
Keeping it inside the frame
by John Dean on Sep 9, 2009
How can I tell AE to always keep the streak inside the frame?
I'm using Adobe After Effects CS4 And Particle V2 I've followed every step you've done in the tutorial video up until after I designed my own particle I go into Effect Controls: Particals look down the Particle options and under Particle Type there is no custom. Under Particle Type the options I have to choise from are Sphere, Glow Sphere (No DOF), Star (No DOF), Cloudlet, Streaklet, Sprite, Sprite Colorize, Sprite Fill, Textured Polygon, Textured Polygon Colorized, and Textured Polygon Fill are my only options to the list of Particle Type.
Creating Light Streaks
by Haydn Nelson on Apr 16, 2008
Those of you having trouble exporting with alpha - try a search for unmult - that might help... what i wanna know is why the light turns and revolves on itself as it changes direction with the wiggle function - surely it should just move in x.y,z not revolve?
Creating Light Streaks
by Matthew Exton on Mar 25, 2008
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Creating Light Streaks
by Marten Kopp on Mar 13, 2008
SUPERB TUTORIAL!! works grate and higly ajustable! Keep it coming!!!
Creating Light Streaks
by dane lewis on Feb 27, 2008
is it possible to use a different plug in if you don,t have Trapcode
Creating Light Streaks
by john grant on Feb 18, 2008
I thought i could use this as a simple tutorial for streaming lights(like Design 9 in Video Stream HD) but it got to complicated for that and I realized that there is probably an easier way to have shooting lights. I haven't been able to find a tutorial on this.
Creating Light Streaks
by Harris Oates on Feb 10, 2008
how exactly do you upload the particle plug in, im just a beginner but this is the kind of stuff i want to do. this tutorial really expired me to try this stuff.
