Need help with CC Particle World preset

Report · May 03, 2020

Hi

I have two questions concrening the CC Particle World preset.

Question one:
I have problem positioning the palm trees (see pic) on the same Y-axis. They seam to be scattered on diffrent leveles. The producers coordinates are all set to zero. The texture on the particales are all the same. The scatter is set to zero. Every option under physics are also set to zero. How could it be that the palm trees are not aligned on the in the Y-axis? And what could I do to achieve that?

Question two:
I cannot draw in the Opacity Map. When I click or drag nothing happens. How come? Does anubody have a clue on what I'm doing wrong?

I run the version 17.0.6 of After Effects 2020.

Report · May 03, 2020

Nothing wrong. You just have a wrong understanding how the plug-in works. Of course there will be variations due to parallax since the plug-in is perspective aware and using an emitter that is fat along the Z axis will of course qualify for that. You need to think of other ways to do it if you really want a perfectly straight line. At the very least add a proper camera layer to your comp and move it around. Perhaps playing around with the camera's positioning and angle will eliminate enough of the perspective for it to look acceptable.

Mylenium

Report · May 04, 2020

Ok, Thanks, I understand. After a bit of tweaking I manage to solve the first problem. I increased the resitance to max and set a negative velocity. Now the palm trees are algin on the Y axis.

Do have any idea about the second question that I asked? Its a bit frustrating. Is this a bug in the preset? Anyone else having the same problem with the Opacity Map in CC Particle World?