From the course: Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training
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Working with fire presets
From the course: Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training
Working with fire presets
- [Instructor] Now's the time where we can have fun with explosions and fire safely within the confines of Particular. So, if we look at our project here, we're going to animate today, but we want the word today to actually appear underneath of an explosion of fire. So I'll do that by selecting layer two, which is a black layer solid, and I want that to be above my text, so I'll click and drag that above the today text, and now we can go up under effects, go down to RG trapcode, and choose Particular, and we'll wait just a second, and within Particular we want to jump right to the designer. Once you're in the designer, I want you to go to the left area and hover over the button next to presets, and just click once on that to lock it out, and I don't want you in the single system presets. While there are some cool explosions in here, that's not what we're looking for. We want multiple system presets. So make sure that that's chosen, and if you don't see the explosions, make sure you've…
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