Superluminal Stardust: Magnet?

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August 12, 2025
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Is there a way to create a magnet to which particles would stick? I just cannot find this functionality and the online manual sucks so there's no help there.

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

I took a look at Stardust, and it is apparently not compatible with any version of After Effects after 2020. There is very little on the website. I'm afraid you'll need another 3rd party plugin to get a "magnetic" effect.

ShiveringCactus

Community Expert

Hi Rick,

I think that's not correct. AEScripts says it is compatible:

https://aescripts.com/stardust/?srsltid=AfmBOopKU8h5mRVoRFwCt0EDpzUmhEw0CT21zhvdN-I7KJny8WyX0_Jq

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

I did not look at AE Scripts. It did not come up in the search. The Stardust website (https://superluminal.tv/downloads/stardust ) lacks a compatible download and has not provided updates in the last 8 years.

It also does not show up in the AE Scripts app:

I would guess that making particles move toward any surface and stick to it would require you to make them move away from the surface normally, then pre-compose and time-reverse the particle layer. I've done that several times with other particle systems to simulate gravity, sticky, or magnetic effects.

ShiveringCactus

Community Expert

Not familiar with stardust, but with other particle systems I think you can fake it by having the magnet as the emitter, making this into a precomp and time reversing it.

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