From the course: Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training
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Fundamentals of the designer
From the course: Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training
Fundamentals of the designer
- [Instructor] In the process of creating a particle system, there are many different settings you can adjust. Now just so we all have a baseline to work from, I've already created this base particle system here in the project. Now to show you what this particle system looks like, I'll click once in the empty area here of the timeline to make sure the timeline panel is active. Then I'll press the space bar to begin playback and you'll notice the particles are moving very slowly from left to right. And if we look in the upper right hand corner of the interface in the info panel, you'll notice it's not playing in realtime. Well that can be problematic when you're trying to animate a particle system, so I'll press the space bar to stop playback here and show you a better way of working with particle systems and that's to take advantage of the designer. So first thing I'll do is select layer one. This is the particle solid layer where I've applied the effect, Particular. Now to see that…
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