animate particles along a path
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Hi, I just purchased TimelineFX and I used to use Particle Illusion years ago in a friend’s studio. What I would like to do is animate particles along a keyframed timeline path like you can do in particle illusion. For example when you drag around a particle in the main screen it moves and trails etc. Can that be animated and rendered to png images or are the particles always stationary? Does that make sense? I can simulate such a path in my video editing software by moving its position in the video timeline, zooming etc, but obviously the trails will not be there as when you move the particle in TimelineFX. is there a way to animate changes like that … along a path, zoom etc?
Hi, unfortunately Timelinefx doesn’t have this feature, the main focus for Timelinefx is computer games and either using the effects directly in the game or creating sprite sheets.
Thank you,
I can still animate the effects in post processing somewhat. I think what I will do is to study a few of the effects in the graph that have particles that do look like they are moving the whole effect across the screen to see how that was achieved. How hard do you think it would be to turn some of the halo type emitters on an angle so they looked like a galaxy in space rather than just vertical in one position? By that I mean move the entire emitter on an angle … or is it possible to make the whole moved along a sort of path using that graph editor? I remember sometimes doing that in particle Illusion. Because I can make them move on a path in post production in my video software, if I can just get the entire single emitter (not it’s components) to move a bit, say spin or something in the graph that would help greatly. Am I making sense with what I am looking to do and do you have any suggestions for which property in the graph could move the whole single emitter? Thanks a lot for answering. 😉
Let me show you an example of what I did some years ago using particle Illusion in a friend’s studio so you can see what I mean by moving whole effects: https://youtu.be/kgiug75ukis
I like you video, good work! 🙂
Probably the only work around might be to create a sub effect in a particle that moves which emits a trail behind it but it might be quite hard to control.
For a Galaxy you could try an ellipse effect where you could control the width, height and angle of the effect to tilt it on it’s side. You could use a small flare shape to create all the stars and maybe combine a few of them together?
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