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Particles controller

Particles controller - After Effects Tutorial

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Particles controller

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- [Eran] Welcome to After Effects Weekly. I'm Eran Stern and this time, I'd like to share a way to control the built-in particle world effect, which works in 3D and can obey the After Effects camera but uses its own coordinate system based on the comp dimensions. So here's the problem that happens when you work with this effect. In this composition, I have a solid layer that has a third-party effect, Element, from Video Copilot. And if I'll click on the Scene Setup, we can see that I've already imported a low poly spaceship model that I found at sketchfab.com. So this is a free model created by EdwinRC. If you want, you can download it yourself. But anyhow, I already did this and also created a group null from the group utilities options inside Element. And this will create an After Effects null that I've named SpaceShip Null and then what I did is animated it in 3D space. So you can see this if I'll switch to two…

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