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Creating swirling particles in Cinema 4D

Creating swirling particles in Cinema 4D - After Effects Tutorial

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Creating swirling particles in Cinema 4D

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you can see these little particles that are just won't even let you open the project file. the full version of Cinema 4D, the full version of Cinema 4D, you can go to simulate, particles, emitter, to create a particle emitter. And if I click play, it just starts spitting out particles. Just that easy. Now I'm going to go to the coordinates here, and I'm going to type 90 along this axis, so that, and then if I start it over again, so that, and then if I start it over again, and play, the particles will go upwards, which is what we want. Let's fiddle with some of these settings a little bit. I'ma go to the particle tab, and for the birthrate for editor and renderer, and for the birthrate for editor and renderer, I'm going to take this to 40. And for stop emission, it's going to go to 150. We're only seeing 90 frames, though. So I'm going to take our entire sequence to 300 frames. And then stretch this so we can see all 300 frames at…

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