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Adding embers created with Trapcode Particular

Adding embers created with Trapcode Particular - After Effects Tutorial

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Adding embers created with Trapcode Particular

Heller and I made these explosions from scratch, we went out in the desert and blew some stuff up. we'll just call this uh, temp particles. And then once we do that, that should replace all the is I'm going to solo this layer so it renders a little bit faster. Because I did these effects in 4k, these are actually the project files that I used, so this render's a little bit slow and I apologize. So soloing this later helped us to go a little bit quicker. So let's go ahead into the emitter here, and I want to lower the particles per second to just 50, so we have a little bit less in the way of particles so we have a little bit less in the way of particles and by default, particular emanates from the center, from this point, I don't want that, I'm going to change the emitter type to box, so we have kind of like an area which feels a little bit more like what would happen if they're coming from an explosion. if they're coming from an explosion.…

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