Built-in Particle System

On a few projects I've wished that there would be a built-in particle system in Photoshop. I know that you can do a lot with brushes, but it would be nice to have something completely random.
My workaround for this is to render something from After Effects. Yes it does work, but it would be much easier if we could stay in one program.
I'm not talking any intense functionality like there is in Particular, I'm just saying something that can take a layer or image and make a particle of it and have it shoot out from an emitter. That way we can get truly random effects. This may be pushing a bit, but if it could have some basic 3D functionality like in CC Particle World that would also be very handy for creating 3D starfields for example.

I am not familiar with the products you have mentioned, but I guess the feature might be useful indeed.
If you should have some JavaScript experience you could also try to Script some automation for the task (possibly involving Smart Objects).

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Poor quality when rendering CC Particle Systems II

Hi Guys.
I'm getting strange render results when I render out CC Particle Systems II cubes and tetrahedrons.
I have the particles cascading out towards the viewer and they look great when I preview render in AFX but when I do a full render to H.264 mp4 they start really crisp and clear then turn in to a really pixelated mess as the render continues. It's odd. I tried rendering through Adobe media encoder but it's the same. I also tried just rendering the particle part of the comp and it does the same thing. Am I missing some settings?
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Thanks

Without seeing it in motion, it sounds like normal issues you would experience with an interframe compression scheme like H.264
H.264 works on the principle of a few full frames scattered among a bunch of incomplete frames with interpolated data. Your first frame would be a keyframe with full data and that middle frame would be one that's incomplete. The reason it looks worse when the particles are on the screen is that there's also a lot more data happening. In the rest of your project, the compression is barely noticeable. This is an issue any time you are trying to design for broadcast or the web. Heck, you can even see this kind of artifacting in major releases. See, for example, the Planet Earth Blu-ray in any of the shots involving a massive flock of birds. You can see compression artifacts despite the pristine quality you would expect from them. There's only so much data you can squeeze out of a frame (to make it easily playable) before certain artifacts will creep in.
You can either redesign to make it less likely to have artifacts when compressed or you can rest assured that most normal people won't even notice something like this as it flies past them on the screen.
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How to move a particle system with arrow keys?

I have a little "ice fountain" particle effect and I want to
be able to move it like an object. How do I use actionscript to
effect a group particle system? (or have collision detection
features for that matter)
Code:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder2_mc",
this.getNextHighestDepth());
for(i=0;i<50;i++) {
var k:MovieClip = holder2_mc.attachMovie("ice","ice"+i
,holder2_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
k._y = 350;
k._xscale = Math.random()* 55 + 35;
k._yscale = Math.random()* 55 + 35;
k._x = Stage.width/2 -150;
k._rotation += Math.random()* 90 -45;
k.gotoAndPlay(Math.ceil(Math.random()*16));

fixed:
holder2_mc coordinates had to be loaded outside onEnterframe
and outside the "for" but inside an onLoad, and the initial k
coordinates had to be shut down.
------------- Code --------------------
onLoad = function(){
holder2_mc._y = 350;
holder2_mc._x = Stage.width/2;
onEnterFrame = function(){
if(Key.isDown(Key.UP)){
holder2_mc._y -= 5;
if(Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)){
holder2_mc._y += 5;
if(Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){
holder2_mc._x -= 5;
if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){
holder2_mc._x += 5;
if(Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)){
//trace(holder2_mc._y);
holder2_mc._rotation += 15;
this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder2_mc",
this.getNextHighestDepth());
for(i=0;i<150;i++) {
var k:MovieClip = holder2_mc.attachMovie("ice","ice"+i
,holder2_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
//k._y = 350;
k._xscale = Math.random()* 55 + 35;
k._yscale = Math.random()* 75 + 25;
//k._x = Stage.width/2 -150;
k._rotation += Math.random()* 90 -45;
k.gotoAndPlay(Math.ceil(Math.random()*16));
//k._y -= Math.random()* 100 +25;
//k._x += Math.random()* 100 -50;

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I've been having an intermittent problem for a long time with my 60d "locking up" that seems to be getting worse. I'm using the built-in optical system in the 60D in E-TTL to fire a Speedlite 580EXii and a speedlite 580EX, both off camera, using the pop up flash to trigger them but setting it so that the pop up flash doesn't add any extra light to the exposure. It's just triggering the Speedlites, camera usually in manual mode but flashes in E-TTL.
I love this set up but the problem I have is that occasionally the camera will just lock up. I try to press the shutter halfway to focus and get nothing. The camera's still on but completely unresponsive. It's not the battery cycling, as I've checked that out, and I don't believe it's a low light focus issue, as I'll often point the camera right at a light when it does this hoping to get it to work again and usually it does nothing to help. The weird thing is that usually after a minute or two of fiddling around the pre-flash sensor will finally come alive and start doing it's thing again and I can finally fire off a shot again and it'll work till it locks up again the next time. It might happen four times during an hour of shooting. Sometimes turning the camera off and back on will clear it and sometime it doesn't but usually when it's locked up it'll stay like this for a couple minutes until finally it becomes responsive again. I know it sounds like a battery issue but I really don't think it is as I've swapped them out many times and still get the same problem.
I should point out I've had the same problem with two Rebels and now this 60d so I don't know if it's my gear or operator error or what. I know the wireless E-TTL system is complicated and doesn't always work but this problem is wildly frustrating and seems to be getting worse.
Has anyone else ever had a problem like this? I don't know if I should spring for the 600EX and the radio controller and if that might be better or not.
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If the "lock up" occurs sometime after taking a series of shots, I would venture to guess that it's the on-board flash shutting down temporarily to prevent overheating. After it cools off a bit, the camera returns to working normally.
When used for wireless off-camera communication with other flashes, the on-board flash fires a series of "pops", which can heat up the flash tube a lot if being used relatively continuously, eventually causing overheating and risking burning out the flash tube. I believe all the camera's are designed with some sort of sensor to stop the flash from firing when it starts to get overheated, rather than let it burn itself out. After the flash cools, it resets and allows the flash to work again.
I don't know if you can cause the on-board flash to shut down this way if it's simply being used as flash. It might not recycle fast enough to overheat. But I really don't know because I almost never use on-board flashes on any of my cameras that have them. The very short duration "bursts" used for off-camera flash communication, however, don't fully drain the flash's capacitor and cause it to slow down and recycle, the way using it as a regular flash will. So there is more risk of continuous usage causing overheating.
If it is due to overheating, the easiest solution is to get and use an ST-E2 module. That's an off-camera flash controller that sits in the camera's hot shoe and communicates via near IR light emissions, has a little better range, and will not overheat. It's less obnoxious than the on-board flash too.
The 600EX-RT is used with a different off-camera controller, the ST-E3-RT (or a second 600EX-RT). It cannot be controlled by the camera's on-board wireless system at all. But it would give considerably greater range in most situations and doesn't require a direct line-of-sight setup the way the optically triggered flashes do.
Alan Myers
San Jose, Calif., USA
"Walk softly and carry a big lens."
GEAR: 5DII, 7D(x2), 50D(x3), some other cameras, various lenses & accessories
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Particle System Collision Area?

so I've got a bunch of modules called "c4" labled red1,red2,red3, etc. And a laser made from particles, with angle controlled
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lasereye_mc. Is there a way to get the c4 to react with the beam, instead of the bounding box around the beam? Or a way to get the photons to interact individually? Also, is there a way to load a particle system through an onEnterFrame without it overloading/oversaturting ?    Thanks.

ok, so I added the remove movieclip at the end of the particle timeline,
and then cut down the i<500 to i<80, and added the c4.cap hitTest;
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    k._y -= Math.random()* 15 + 10;             //plus changes distance of start of beam, base changes range
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and duplicated the loop for the c4 module. It now works like a charm ^_^
Thanks much!

Actionscript with particle systems

I want to apply particle systems into actionscript3,because I know particle systems can create many special effects,but I only know actionscript grammer and don't know any particle systems knowledge,anyone could tell me some books about actionscript with particle systems?
Thanks

Here few links (I never tried though):
http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/607/1/A-simple-particle-system-using-Action script-3/Page1.html
http://www.lynda.com/ActionScript-3-tutorials/building-particle-systems/573-2.html
http://www.lemlinh.com/flash-tutorial-create-cool-particle-systems-5-how-to-articles-on-as 3/

Looping bubbles so it loops forever - Particle system

Hi guys,
Is it possible to loop bubbles, using the foam particle ? I want a glass of champagne and want the bubbles to loop, and never stop.
Let's say you want to loop this over and over, so it seems seemless ?
I don't see a way to accomplish this, as the bubbles are never the same on any frame. If you just cut out a portion of a rendered video, you will see it has been snipped. The bubbles will never match up.
How would one go about this ?
Thanks for any information,
Dave.
P.S. - there are so many AE forums, which one is the best to post in ? - where the most chat is going on ? It may be where I posted, but I'm not sure.

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Is it possible to loop bubbles, using the foam particle ? I want a glass of champagne and want the bubbles to loop, and never stop.
>
> Let's say you want to loop this over and over, so it seems seemless ?
>
> I don't see a way to accomplish this, as the bubbles are never the same on any frame. If you just cut out a portion of a rendered video, you will see it has been snipped. The bubbles will never match up.
>
> How would one go about this ?
>
> Thanks for any information,
>
> Dave.
>
> P.S. - there are so many AE forums, which one is the best to post in ? - where the most chat is going on ? It may be where I posted, but I'm not sure.
I have not watched the podcast, but the title sounds promising.
http://cowcast.creativecow.net/podcast/creating-a-looping-particle-system--250

Which 3D software will do the particle system best?

Which 3D software will do the particle system best? Because I have Lightwave 3D 8, it doesnt do what I really want. I couldnt transfer from one action of particles to another action but makes two different actions of particles instead. For example, I want an explosed particles turning into flying then again explosing. Just the transformation of action that Lightwave cant do. So, I remember I was told Combustion has one of best particle system.. So, I need your knowledge and experience to make some recommendation for me to check which software I may get to use for a better particle system to make?? Please let me know.

Hmm. Not really a Final Cut Pro question you are asking there . . . .
. . . however so as to appear somewhat helpful anyway . .
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Hi,
I have the new model iMac G5 that is now consistantly freezing. When I say freezing, I get the spinning wheel and nothing is accessable. I have to hold down the power button to reset it. I have called Apple and reset NVRAM, clear the cache's, etc and it is still happening. I search and it seems that others are seeing similar freeze problems. Is there potientially a hardware problem? I was running 10.4.2 and just upgraded to 10.4.3 and that did not help.
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Wish list for AE CS6

Been using AE CS5 and loving it, but wish there were a couple of more features...
-- shadow color for 3D lights. not only control the color of the light, but of the shadows they create (like in Lightwave and other 3D packages)
-- more user friendly expression library. gimme easy to apply presets with sliders!
-- openCL acceleration for us non nVidia folks.
I'm sure there are others, but just hope this reaches the right eyeballs...

First, the next generation of Adobe After Effects should do more with enhancing the working environment which Motion 4 did.
When a user opens the application, they just want to think of how to make their creativity comes truth with flexible and easy-to-use tools. Not too complicated like the ones in AE right now. Full black solid appearance theme like the gray one in Photoshop (without Windows Aero theme in the title) that may save some spaces for menu bar and look cooler. Using tabs to work with multiple AE files in just one window like Photoshop. Improvement in Drag-and Drop or multi-touch screen. The feature in AE is cool but they somehow hidden and hard to find or use. Let bring them in the front with easy-to-understand icon and able to expand them by click and hold to show more options that related to main feature. Thumbnail view should be better than the list or menu view in filter effects, presets, animations, and 3D text style built inside AE divided by tabs (Drag and Drop should be applied for these thumbnails). Windows 7 came with their redesigned taskbar that can feature as the progress bar and tasking menu for each application that has the icon on it. Think about using these two features of the new taskbar, user will be able to do simple tasks in AE by just right click and choose the task on the icon in the taskbar or get informed about rendering process without staying in AE windows by progress bar feature in Windows 7's taskbar.
Second, there are many plugins available for users to buy but they're so expensive. Buying After Effect like buying a house without door, appliance, or some other necessary things. After Effects should rather bring more tools, effect filters, or creative features than focusing on creating just one or two significant features. We need to think about renewing the old creative stuffs in AE like brand new built-in Particle System, Lens Flares improved with more types of len or color of light, Easier 2D/3D reflection/lighting/shadowing, Painting Brush (3D stroke type) or easy Extrude 3D Text/ Object with more animations and presets than the current version. Each of them should be organized and listed in the thumbnail view. Users will be able to do the drag-and-drop operation on this. How about the behavior with the physic ability like gravity,wind for objects or smart objects that have the physic ability? That would be great. The power of AE in the future needs to focus on 3D movie making aslo, althought there are set of features that allow us to do that, but not fully supported. If needed, they could make the specific mode for 3D movie making only in individual window.
Third, the acceleration of performance is really big step. 64-bit support is a very good thing for AE, but since many releases of AE I haven't seen such the improvement like startup speed and stability. AE in the one that has slowest startup speed among with its friends like Photoshop, Flash, or Dreamwaver and somtime crashes. The Team needs to think about that.
Fourth, I also suggest a feature called "Realism" that will be able to make or organize the colors, lights, or even edges of every 2D/3D objects in a composition or each composition and help them look more realistic with just a few clicks.
Hopefully, my suggestions will help Adobe improve their next AE. CS6 should be the greatest development with Additions, Accelerations or Enhancements among its previous versions. By that way, there will be more users will think of buying or upgrading to new CS6. That's what I and other users are looking for.
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Just built the following system :
Athlon64 3400+
Zalman 7000 Al-Cu
MSI K8N Neo Plat.
1GB Mushkin "222 Special' (2x512)
WB 74GB Raptor
Maxtor 160GB PATA HDD (8MB)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (X800XT should be delivered this week)
Lian Li V1000B Case
Antec TrueBlue 480W PSU
The install went really fast. The only time-consuming item was removing the stock metal plate.
Couple of notes on the Lian Li V1000.
* The included USB2 front-panel cable is long enough.
* The standard firewire FP conector does not reach the MB header. However, the individual pins reach - barely.
* The front panel audio connectors do not reach the MB header.
Temperature is around 44C CPU idle and 40C Case

Havent taken any yet, but Anandtech has some nice photos.
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=2040
I have the same case in black.
Its kinda odd that the cable is short. That's flat out bad design - especially since most motherboards have the connector at the bottom corner.
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New System Build Help

Video Editing Build
Premiere Pro & AE
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C: SSD - OS and Programs
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D: 1TB - Projects/Scratch
Western Digital WD Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
E: 3TB - Media (with offsite bachup)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
F: 250 GB - Exports
Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD2500HHTZ 250GB 10000 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
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COOLER MASTER GX Series RS750-ACAAD3-US 750W ATX12V v2.31 SLI Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
2 CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Desktop Memory Model CMZ16GX3M2A1866C9
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit - OEM
CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Water Cooler
Koutech IO-RCM630 Multi-in-1 USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Front Panel Internal Card Reader with USB 3.0 Port (3.5")
ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM
Total $2912.83
Would have liked a raid 5 for media but the Asus X79 does not have enough Sata 6Gb/s the Asrock version has but does not have the SSD Caching port
which I think and hope will work well with the 2 SSD cards. 1 for the OS and the other for the Globel cache for AE (not set up as raid 0)
Maybe down the road I could add a seperate raid card to run 3 extra drives on a raid 5 ?
Any way I would love to your feed back from you guys before I pull the lever on this as all this jazz is pretty new to me. I have built a few systems in the past but
would like to get better on AE. Going this time for ease of performance and as little bottlenecks as I can and at the same time keeping it simple.
Cheers
Murph I am no expert as this
Found this on Adobe TV How to optimize AE for High Performance. It made the most sence to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4D9ScFcM3M

Update just wondering which disc setup would work best with my set up for the best performance ?
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             Option 1
             C: OS and Program SAMSUNG 840 Pro                                                  (6Gb/s SSD caching sata)
             D: Projects/Scratch WD Black 2TB 7200                                                (6Gb/s sata)
             E:   Media. Seagate Barracuda 7200 3TB                                                   (6Gb/s sata)
             F:   Exports. WD VelociRaptor 250GB 10000 RPM                              (3Gb/s sata)
             G: SSD - Globel Cache (for After effects) SAMSUNG 840 Pro 120GB         (6Gb/s SSD caching sata)
             Option 2 ( pretty much the same as mellofell13, members setup)
             C: OS and Program SAMSUNG 840 Pro 256GB                                       (6Gb/s SSD caching sata)
             D: Media & Projects 2x Western Digital 1TB Caviar black Raid 0                (6Gb/s sata) Marvell
             E: Exports & previews. 2x Western Digital 1TB Caviar black Raid 0            (3Gb/s sata)
             F: temp files, media cache, Globel Cache (for After effects)
                  SAMSUNG 840 Pro 120GB                                                                (6Gb/s SSD caching sata)
            Just trying to make the final dicision on this any help would be greatly appreciated
            Thankyou

New System - No POST, No Beep Codes

Hey guys,
So I built a new system last night, powered everything on and everything seemed to come on as expected but there was absolutely nothing on the screen. The system MIGHT be posting properly because I see the keyboard lights flash when I first turn it on, then the Numlock light stays on as normal. Also, when I press the numlock key it toggles the light as it should, and a ctrl-alt-del on the keyboard seems to reset the system as well (fan speeds change and lights blink just as they do when pressing the actual reset button on the case). Additionally, when I had the drives connected it sounded like it was checking them looking for something to boot (even though the hard drive is blank right now). However, I'm not sure that they're just making noise simply because they have power and are doing things like spinning down after not being used for a minute or two.
There are no beeps or alerts coming from the motherboard that I can see/hear. I also disconnected all the drives to see if that helped, but it was still the same thing. I have not yet tried to take the mainboard out of the case and running it with only CPU/RAM/video; I plan to try that tonight as a next step.
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This motherboard should beep if it detects a problem, correct?
Are there any LEDs on the board that could help me diagnose something? I don't think it came with a D-bracket. There are the 4 CPU_Phase LEDs on the board, and I believe two of them are lit up while it's running, but I'm not sure how to interpret those LEDS. Anyone know what exactly they indicate (more than what the manual says, which is just that 2, 3, or 4 lights indicates that the CPU is in 2-phase 3-phase, or 4-phase power modes).
Am I correct in assuming that since the lights on the keyboard seem to behave as normal and that ctrl-alt-del works as normal that the motherboard is probably okay?
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