From the course: Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training
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Working with polygons
From the course: Particular 4 for After Effects Essential Training
Working with polygons
- [Instructor] Working with polygons inside a particular is exactly like working with sprites, with one exception. So let me show you what I mean. If we look at our project here, you'll notice I have two layers, and if I select layer one and press the space bar to begin playback, you'll notice I have these particles that are spinning around in 3-D space. I'm going to press the space bar to stop playback here, and with layer one selected, I'll go up under the Window menu and choose Effect Controls. In here, notice my emitter is just a sphere emitter. And if I scroll down, you'll notice the particle itself is a sprite. And since these are all rotating, sprites auto-orient to the camera. So I'm going to go up here and click on the dropdown. And instead of choose a sprite, I'm going to choose a textured polygon. Notice now, when I've chosen that, if I scrub through here, you can see the particles are actually spinning perfectly flat as they rotate around, because textured polygons do not…
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