Particular - making leaves fall off a tree-changing gravity over time possible?

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August 13, 2019
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I'm still really new to after effects, and I'm using particular to create leaves growing on a vine. It works great. The only thing is now at the end of my composition I want all the leaves to fall off. I was hoping to be able to use a keyframe on the gravity variable, but that doesn't seem possible (from what I can tell). Can anyone recommend another way to achieve a realistic "letting go" of the leaves? Thank you!

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ToolfarmJP

Community Expert

Hello,

This tutorial video might be useful.

Particular Falling Leaves Tutorial - YouTube

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mbirameAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks for that, but that isn’t what I’m wanting to do. This is just like a falling effect. I am hoping to have gravity turned off and then toward the end of the sequence turn it on so the particles fall. I hope that makes sense?

Kyle Hamrick

Community Expert

If you're using Particular's features to do the "growing," I don't think there will be a way to achieve what you're after using gravity.
You can keyframe the Physics Time Factor, but that will also keep particles from appearing/growing/whatever.

I would take a look at the Wind (under Physics), which you can keyframe - you might be able to achieve your look that way. You can also check out the turbulence/spherical fields (a bit further down in Physics) that you could potentially use to push/scatter them in a desired direction. Red Giant has a lot of good tutorials on their site covering their products: Red Giant Training and Tutorials | Red Giant Support

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