To access the presets, simply click on the Preset button at the top left of the interface, an the preset window will immediately appear from the left side of the interface.

Once applied, you’ll notice that the standard default particle system looks just the way it has since version 1.0 of the effect.īut, once you call up the Effect Controls window, you can click on the “Designer” button to get access the particle designer, to either access the preset window, or begin to create your own particle look. Well, Particular’s toolset has been expanded to be more in line with MB Looks, as well as other effects in the Red Giant family (like Universe). If you’re familiar with Magic Bullet Looks, you’ll know that it was designed with a very cool interface that let’s you expose and hide all the panels you need to work with, so you can keep your work as the center of attention. Particular has taken some interesting steps over the last few years, and it’s been an interesting journey for it, as well as the other effects that Red Giant make. I’m not going to go into any detail about these effects, as they have pretty much been a staple of motion graphic design for longer than I can remember, and instead, I want to focus on the three effects that did receive an update, and that is Particular, Form and Tao. What’s important for me to point out with the Trapcode suite, is that when a new release comes along, not necessarily all the effects are updated, so in this version the effects that are the same as the previous release include:

Let’s see what’s been updated in this go around!īefore we jump in and talk about what’s new, I want to mention that if you haven’t updated Trapcode’s effects in awhile, you’re going to need to look for them in a new place, as they are no longer referred to as Trapcode in AE. Red Giant is back with Trapcode Suite 14, the newest release of its popular After Effects plug-ins.

A lot, and I always have my “stable” of effects that I find myself constantly going to, and Trapcode definitely has some of those effects.

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