Trapcode Suite

Trapcode Particular 5

Name: Trapcode Particular
Brand: Red Giant
SKU: TCD-PART-D
Price: 399.00 USD

Create organic 3D particle effects and complex motion graphics elements in After Effects

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Motion Graphics

Trapcode Particular is a plugin for After Effects that lets you add particles to your compositions to bring your motion graphics work to life. Use 3D objects for even more beauty and complexity.

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Visual Effects

Create fire, water, smoke, snow and other organic effects. Combine multiple particle systems into one unified 3D space for visually stunning results.

Trapcode Particular - Visual Effects (VFX)

Physics

Particular’s powerful physics engine includes new behaviors, forces and environmental controls. Bring particles to life with flocking/swarming and predator/prey behaviors. Combine bounce and air physics or create beautiful fluid simulations for more realism than ever before.

Next Generation

Particular now includes parent/child particle systems where a parent emitter can emit one or more complete child emitters. It’s also easy to set up long emitter chains to create beautifully complex cascading results.

Designer

Trapcode Particular gives you the ability to build particle effects visually, with a powerful designer that makes generating effects more creative and intuitive than ever before.

Presets

Choose from over 355 Trapcode Particular presets, designed to give you a head start. Every preset is fully-customizable.

Trapcode Particular 4 - Swirl Stream Preset

Yarn Torus
Mass Effect
Swirl Stream
Fireworks Cascade
Ring Explosion
Cascading Explosion
Ethereal Plane
Bucky Bacgkround

Features

Trapcode Particular has been redesigned to include lots of new features and enhancements.

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Designer

Creating particle effects is easier than ever before, in the updated Designer. Add adjustable blocks with preset behaviors and styles for emitters, particles, physics and aux particles. Or add complete, customizable particle effects with a single click.

Emit from Parent (NEW)

The limited Aux particle system is a thing of the past. Particular’s new ‘Emit From Parent System’ makes it possible to have emitters that emit complete Emitters. You can easily set up emitter chains, or have multiple systems emit from one source. Combine presets to create embers and smoke from flame particles. Fireworks can reach a whole new explosive depth.

GPU-Accelerated

Get fast feedback with Trapcode Particular’s new GPU Acceleration through OpenGL. Depending on your system and setup, you could see speed boosts of up to 4X or more over previous versions.

3D Camera and Lights

Particular uses After Effects’ 3D Camera and Lights so you can fully integrate your particle Effects with your motion graphics and live-action vfx shots.

Instant Feedback

The designer gives instant visual feedback, making the building and previewing of effects an intuitive and creative experience. New in Particular 3, the Designer respects the AE comp size, bringing in the composition and camera info. Preview your particle layout with camera and emitter position controls

Even More Particle Systems (NEW)

Work with up to 16 particle systems in the same 3D space (previously 8) and explore endless creative possibilities. Create beautiful, complex effects through the interaction of different systems, all within one instance of Particular. Emitters in Multi-system setups can share parameter settings (such as turbulence, gravity and more), and can be saved as a single preset.

Physics: Air & Bounce Together (NEW)

For the first time ever, combine air and bounce physics for the most realistic, complex effects ever offered in Particular. Choose up to 3 bounce layers with full bounce control and interaction.

Fluid Dynamics

Create dynamic, swirling effects with the new Dynamic Fluids physics engine, which allows particles to behave as if they are moving through real fluids. Choose from 4 customizable fluidic behaviors.

Physics: Environment (NEW)

The Environment category houses external forces like Gravity, Air Turbulence and the new Wind effect - a force that is now responsive to the mass, size, and air resistance of particles. Define different aspects of the Air Turbulence around your system to affect particle Position and Orientation/Spin.

Physics: Particle Properties (NEW)

Particular now includes more intuitive control of how particles respond to their environment by making Mass and Air Resistance properties of the particles themselves.

Fast Physics (NEW)

A new Fast Physics section includes the tools that can affect physics quickly without much of a hit to render times, such as Turbulence Field and Spherical Fields. New Drift controls push particles directly when real-world physics aren’t needed. A new Affect Opacity option is now available with Turbulence Field.

Behaviors: Flocking/Swarming (NEW)

Particular’s powerful new Flocking simulation tools include automatic behaviors that take particle animation to a new level. Use Attract and Separate tools to define how much the particles want to be near each other. The Align tool lets you control how much particles flock in the same direction.

Behaviors: Predator/Prey (NEW)

Set up Predator/Prey relationships between particle systems. When a system is set up as Prey, you can use the Evade parameter to control how much they want to avoid a Predator. If a system is set as a Predator, the Pursue control decides how hungry it is. Control the maximum speed of your particles, how far they can see each other, and their field of view for even more realistic and varied behavior.

Behaviors: Meander (NEW)

The new Meander behavior allows individual particles to wander about like people in a shopping mall or to have variances in speed like cars in different lanes of traffic. Meander’s influence over your animation is affected by the Mass of particles and can be used to add some nice individual movement to each particle. Meander can also be used to create complex group motion when combined with other features and behaviors, such as Flocking.

Text Emitter

For the first time ever, use text as an emitter, speeding up the creation process dramatically from previous versions. No precomping required. Create write-on effects by controlling the reveal of particles along text paths.

Mask Emitters

For the first time ever, use masks as an emitter, making it simple to create uniquely shaped emitters or to use parts of an image as the source of particle emissions. No precomping required. Create write-on effects by controlling the reveal of particles along mask paths.

OBJs as Emitters

Give your particle systems a new dimension by using 3D models and animated OBJ sequences as particle emitters. For added flexibility, you can choose to emit particles from the vertices, edges, faces or volume of your OBJ file. Choose from Particular’s library of over 60 OBJs, or easily load your own models using the new OBJ Loading Panel directly in After Effects or within the Designer.

Trapcode Particular - Velocity Over Life

Velocity Over Life (NEW)

For the first time ever, particles can be set to change their speed several times during a simulation using a Velocity Over Life curve. Start particles off slow so they stick to their emission point before speeding away, or have them start off fast, slow down and speed up again over the course of their lifetime. Great for use with Text and 3D Object-based emitters.

Multiple Systems

For the first time ever, explore endless creative possibilities when you combine multiple particle systems in the same 3D space. Create beautiful, complex effects through the interaction of different systems, all within one instance of Particular. Emitters in Multi-system setups can share parameter settings (such as turbulence, gravity and more), and can be saved as a single preset.

Trapcode Particular - Lighting & Shadows

Lighting and Shadows

Shade all particle types from lights in After Effects. Shading can emulate light falloff, and Shadowlet rendering can cast shadows on both main and aux particles.

430 Plus Presets

Hit the ground running with over 430 fully-customizable Designer presets. Particular 4 includes over 55 new presets that show off powerful features like fluid dynamics, behaviors and more. Explore the library to find beautifully designed effects for creating fluids, text, fire, spaceflight, fireworks, muzzle flashes, explosions, smoke and more. Save your own presets, and share them across your facility.

Trapcode Particular - Sprites & Polygons

Sprites and Polygons

Use any image in your composition as a particle by assigning it to a 3D sprite. Particular 5 now includes over 260 still and animated sprite images, easily loaded directly within After Effects or in the Designer via the Sprite Loading Panel. In the latest version of Particular, we’ve simplified the sprite workflow to make it easier to work with than ever before.

Reflection Maps

Create dynamic color changes in your textured polygon particles by using layer as a reflection map. Add glints to particles as they rotate in 3D.

Cinema 4D File Import

Thanks to Cineware, use .c4d file 3D geometry as emitters. Supported Geometry properties include: animation and transformations (rotation, position/translation and scaling).

Emit from Parent (NEW)

Even More Particle Systems (NEW)

Physics: Air & Bounce Together (NEW)

For the first time ever, combine air and bounce physics for the most realistic, complex effects ever offered in Particular. Choose up to 3 bounce layers with full bounce control and interaction.

Physics: Environment (NEW)

Physics: Particle Properties (NEW)

Particular now includes more intuitive control of how particles respond to their environment by making Mass and Air Resistance properties of the particles themselves.

Fast Physics (NEW)

Behaviors: Flocking/Swarming (NEW)

Behaviors: Predator/Prey (NEW)

Behaviors: Meander (NEW)

Velocity Over Life (NEW)

Compatibility

Host Applications

Adobe After Effects CC 2017 and later

Installers

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Operating Systems

Apple Macintosh

Mac OS X 10.11 and later *

4 GB of RAM
800 MB of Hard Drive space

*M1 machines may work via Rosetta, but are not currently natively supported.

PC/Windows

Windows 10 and later

4 GB of RAM
800 MB of Hard Drive space

Additional Requirements

The minimum GPU required is an Intel HD 5000 integrated graphics chip. Of course, newer and faster discrete GPU components from AMD and Nvidia will yield faster performance.

- For Nvidia, we recommend 9xx series graphics cards or newer; mobile GPUs; or the professional series Quadro cards.

- For AMD, we recommend 200 series graphics cards or newer; mobile GPUs; or the professional series FireGL cards.

VRAM size requirements: For HD resolution output, we recommend that your GPU have at least 2 GB of memory. If you are planning on doing high-resolution project in 4K or more, we recommend a GPU with at least 4 GB of memory.

Any CPU from Intel or AMD is supported.

Resources

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Tutorials

Watch our getting started videos to get up to speed with Trapcode Particular or browse our other tutorials.

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User Guide

This user guide has been designed to help you get comfortable with all of the tools and features of Trapcode Particular.

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Support

Browse our FAQ section for Trapcode Particular to find quick answers to the most common questions.

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$ 199 /yr*
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Cinema 4D 3D modeling, animation, and simulation software
Redshift for C4D** GPU-accelerated biased renderer
Red Giant Complete Get all our filmmaking and animation plugins
Cineversity Our online library of tutorials and resources

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Maxon One includes Cinema 4D, Redshift for C4D and Red Giant Complete. The annual subscription price is fully inclusive of all upgrades, support, maintenance, server software and render nodes. There are no hidden fees. Our volume program is available to customers ordering 3 or more licenses of Maxon One (Volume).

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