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Loop Particular the Right Way

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I’ve seen this question floating out on the web a few times, and I personally run into it often when I’m working on broadcast stuff. Most of the time I see people recommend just fading your particles off, or crossfading between to layers, but I don’t like that. Here is a video about my workflow on how I make Trapcode Particular loop “the right way”.

37 Comments on “Loop Particular the Right Way”

  1. 990adjustments

    Handy tip! keep ‘em coming!

  2. Chris Kelley

    Thanks Erwin! And like I said in the video, this is a very primitive example, but the theory is more flexible than it may seem. I wrapped a project a few weeks ago where I had a blimp with a trail of particles flying around, and with the right application this technique gave me a flawless loop - personally I like this sooo much better then the old “fade off fade up” approach.

  3. Mark

    Howdy . .this is a great tip .. really useful indeed. Will be keeping an eye on your blog :)
    Cheers

  4. Vinçenzo

    Thanks for it. However I have a weird problem (maybe a bug) with custom shapes. I mean; when I try your method using a custom shape, particles per second value (via keyframe) doesn’t affect on scene… When I set it 80 to 0 -using two keyframes- I see lots of particles even when it’s 0. Thanks in advance for any help.

  5. alex

    Great tip. Thank you. I think the only thing that needs an additional mention is that the particles need to have a life shorter than the loop, or leave the screen.

  6. Sean

    Dude! Thanks a lot, this worked great!

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    [...] And to the person who was in need of the video tutorial (sorry this is a few months late) there is a decent one that shows how to loop using the method that toadvine had mentioned. http://themographblog.com/2008/04/15…the-right-way/ [...]

  8. David Jolosky

    If anybody is searching for the “custom particle” solve (and by the way, great tutorial, simple and succint). Ensure that when you duplicate your layer, duplicate the source particle as well and position that at the in point of your duplicate when you offset. This is if you are using “start at birth/loop” in particular.

    Worked perfectly.

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