Shooting stars effect

[scrimski]

For those of us who don't know how a 'shooting star' fx oughta look like, could you provide an example, a reference?

[benthomas2222]

I dont see what the problem is, a shooting star is a big star which moves across the sky with lots of little stars behind it as its tail.

I hope that explains it, i dont think there is much need for a ref photo

ben.

[scrimski]

Much clearer now(did it hurt?). Animate your big star and link particle emitter to it, give the smaller stars no or just a tiny gravity and motion, let them fade out after a while and use glow and streaks on the particles.

[suztv]

I have created shooting stars using Trapcode particular. You can use the built in particle effect but trapcode is much easier and there is www.trapcodepeople.net (http://www.trapcodepeople.net) this site has tons of AE files and presets that use trapcode plugins and are free to download . Odds are that someone has already created that effect and all you need to do is modify it.

[dolemite]

i have a question about linking a particle emiter. How do I do it? I am able to link the layer, but that doesn't give the desired result.

also, i've had problems with drawing masks over particle layers. Just didn't seem to work.

[scrimski]

Youc could use expressions for the particle emitter postion itself.

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