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Loop Particular the Right Way
Posted: April 15th, 2008
Download the After Effects file for this tutorial:
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”.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Handy tip! keep ‘em coming!
April 17th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
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.
September 29th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Howdy . .this is a great tip .. really useful indeed. Will be keeping an eye on your blog
Cheers
November 8th, 2008 at 6:17 am
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.
December 11th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
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.
January 29th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Dude! Thanks a lot, this worked great!
April 7th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
[...] 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/ [...]
May 4th, 2009 at 10:27 am
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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