Need particle tool advice

[cjberg]

I guess I would ask what you want to do. Particular for AE is very powerful, otherwise, my money would be with Dante.

Cj

[scott8933]

Use Particular in AfterEffects. It isn't hard to translate camera and path data between EI and AE (there's a utility out there somewhere for that) and you'll take years off your life with the stress caused by doing particles in 3D.

AE is simply hands-down more controlable, faster, more flexible, and more stable. Particular combined with Starglow is unbeatable.

That said, if you MUST insist on doing particles in EI, use Dante. Its a superb particle system. If Blair ported his creation over to AE, it would be a better solution than Particular, but again, you're saving yourself hours and hours of trouble by just doing it in post right from the start.

I guess I would ask what you want to do. Particular for AE is very powerful, otherwise, my money would be with Dante.

Cj

[Jens C. Möller]

Dante does not render in EI 7. I would definately go with Particular in After Effects.

Jens

[3dData]

You can't beat Particular's particles along a path.

[newranman]

Thanks for the suggestions. Particular looks good. I guess I'll need to finally upgrade my AE 5.5. I think with Particular and Rodeo I should be ok.

Ran

[scott8933]

Rodeo's another one I'd love to see brought to AE. There's ZERO plugins on the market in ae for doing physics. Huge opportunity, I'd think.


Thanks for the suggestions. Particular looks good. I guess I'll need to finally upgrade my AE 5.5. I think with Particular and Rodeo I should be ok.

Ran

[scottfox]

I own both and get much better output significantly FASTER with particle illusion.
Particular is nice and clean, but is a dog in performance and is harder to get a look
"smoke" "water" sparks easily and adjustably.

my 2 cents.

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