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Creating a particle beam on mulitple layers and in X,Y,Z space
by Peter Gagnon on Jan 17, 2008 at 3:12:05 pm

Hi All,

I have created a particle beam effect for a 8 second Sci Fi gun battle. I want to keep the same effect for all the various guns and manipulate the beam in 3D space so that I can go from the muzzle of the weapon to where ever it's going. The beam consists of several layers, but the beam itself is a combination between trapcode particular and 3D stroke... I don't want this effect to look like 'Star Wars' so I could really use some ideas... I though about using a null to control the positions with an expression, etc... but I can never fully get this to work... Any ideas?

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Creating a particle beam on mulitple layers and in X,Y,Z space by Peter Gagnon on Jan 17, 2008 at 3:12:05 pm
- Re: Creating a particle beam on mulitple layers and in X,Y,Z space by Darby Edelen on Jan 17, 2008 at 4:36:02 pm
  - Re: Creating a particle beam on mulitple layers and in X,Y,Z space by Peter Gagnon on Jan 17, 2008 at 4:45:35 pm

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