Black Particles Appearing

[inquestflash]

Hi Forum.

I'm using Trapcode particular in my composition and I noticed that the particles are emitting some vague black particles as well. Where are these

emitting from?

Thank you.

[Rick Gerard]

Without details, it's impossible to tell what's going on. There are no bugs I know of.

Select the particular layer, press UU, Print Screen and Paste the screenshot to the forum so we can see everything you changed in Particular.

It's also important to know that the only way you can judge a video is when it is paying back in real time and full resolution. Pixel Peeping will drive you crazy.

[inquestflash]

Hi Rick, Here's a screenshot with the settings.

[Rick Gerard]

The particle color is coming from the emitter layer. What's going on there?

Your particles are also very small. Only 2 pixels. It is possible that the small size combined with whatever is going on in the pre-comp that is used for the emitter could be causing some of the particles to be dark.  You've also got a huge number of particles per second. I would try increasing the size to about 4 pixels and check the comp that is used for the emitter.

[inquestflash]

Ok, so here's the "solution" for some reason in the particles where the layer emitter is, the Layer RGB usage needed to be set at NONE. I dont know why, but my other projects are set to RGB particle color by default, and just work fine. So the black particles magically disappeared when I checked it to none, and now I'm back on track. It amuses me sometimes how particular functions.

[inquestflash]

As always thanks for the insight Rick.

Kind regards.

[P.M.B]

Is the image you're emitting from black and white?   If you're taking the particle color from a black and white image then some of you particles will be black. 

[inquestflash]

Hi gutterfish, yes the text is white with some maybe black elements I'm assuming coming from the black drop shadow.