Would anyone be so kind to help me breakdown this VFX? NSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ5DX_3F42c
I am guessing he uses Trapcode Particular for the meteor smoke trail.
But I cannot figure out, no matter how much tweaking and experimenting, how he got a red glow throughout the smoke
and the sheer realism of the smoke. Would anyone please help me figure it out step by step?
It's not that hard if you think multiple layers. I'd say a minimum of 5
Background
Black particles
Red Particles
Roto of actor
Flair
The project could easily require twice that f you start adding in the fine smoke and color correction.
The higher the number of particles and the smaller they are the more realistic the smoke. It just takes some tweaking and a bunch of experimentation with the physics. Don't expect to have someone give you a single setting for particular that will duplicate this effect on a single layer. It just isn't going to happen.
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Would Anyone Mind Giving A Few Tips To Make This Script More Robust?
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For example, does the script frequently fail in one particular area?
That would help narrow it down significantly. There's little point in people deeply analyzing code that works just fine.
If, on the other hand, you're looking for optimizations, there are several that come to mind.
Firstly, you're making repeated coercions of a date to a string in order to compare them. String comparisons for dates are inherently dangerous for many reasons.
For one, different users might have different settings for their date format.
Both "Monday May 28th 2007 1:02:03am" and "28th May 2007 1:02:03am" are valid coercions of a date to a string, depending on the user's preferences.
You might expect the former format whereas the current system settings use the latter so now 'word 1" returns "28th" rather than "Monday" as you expect.
The problem is exascerbated by the fact that since you're coercing to strings you're now using alphabetical sorting, not numeric sorting. This is critical because in an alpha sort "3rd" comes AFTER "20th" because the character '3' comes after the character '2'. However I'm guessing you'd want events on the 3rd of the month to be sorted before events on the 20th.
So the solution here is to throw away the entire block of code that does the date-to-string coercions. If my reading of the code and the expected values is correct it can all be reduced from:
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