Making Multiple Objects fall...

[tinitron]

This really cries for particles! Use your one word as particle and animate the gravity.

[meyers3d]

You could try animating one, and then just copy and paste the keys to all the others, assuming they all fall at the same time. It may take a minute or two, but it sure beats re-keying every single one.

[Mylenium]

Hello,

(I know its slightly bad forum etiquette to be asking a question as a first post but please forgive me. )

Basically I have about 50 or so layers of 1 word type in after effects for a typographical motion piece and at a certain point in my timeline I want to make them all 'fall' to the ground in a realistic manner (ie. gravity) I’m wondering if at this point there is any other solution to use rather than hand keying it as I was initially going to do...

Cheers and thanks in advance,

Ian

The others' suggestions notwithstanding, but how 'bout text animators?

Mylenium

[Mylenium]

This really cries for particles! Use your one word as particle and animate the gravity.

Yeah, and with which particle system inside AE would you be able to achieve that? This is no a particularly smart suggestion.

Mylenium

[fetusface]

thanks guys for all your great ideas....what I ended up doing was exporting a frame from the timeline and brining it back in and using the shatter effect with it referencing itself for the points to shatter.

worked out pretty good ill post the end result in a few days time.....

[pixel1]

you can achieve this in trapcode particular

[Mylenium]

you can achieve this in trapcode particular

Then please show me how. Sorry, but I'm not that stupid. Don't you all read the initial post? There was no such thing as any info about the placement being random or arbitrary. I'm 100% certain the letters are supposed to appear in a specific order to give the illusion of words. Under that premise it's completely unrealistic to assume you could rely on Particular's custom particle sampling nor on it's physics. You wouldn't even be able to pull this off as Gravity is a non-animatable parameter. The only way to get anything of that kind is to animate the PTF with all its downsides like particles being frozen completely and having no secondary motion at all.

Mylenium

[suztv]

The type animator is perfect for this - actually the Animators that AE has in the type layer are just as powerful as some of the plug-ins out there. There are type animation presets in AE that can do what you want (after modifying) Text Bounce or Raining Characters. I think the raining characters would work perfectly and all you would have to do is modify the opacity keys at the end.

I think these only come with AE 6.5 and above - so if you do not have that I think using a particle system plug-in would be how you would have to do it. If you do have AE 6.5 and need help locating the presets - let me know.

[trancor]

Then please show me how. Sorry, but I'm not that stupid. Don't you all read the initial post?

I read your initial post and technically you can get words as particles by dispalying comps as particles with words in the comp.


But yeah, the text tool is so powerful in ae that you can probably do exactly what you want with that.

Or you can look into Zax works, they have a ton automated text animations and it's a 3d text program, so you can have 3d text be falling down.

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