Other new features in Particular 2.5 include Over Life graphs for fine control of particle size and opacity over time, and a new explode behaviour intended to let users create explosion effects without setting keyframes. It can also load the software’s existing sprite images, over 100 of which have been added in the update. It isn’t a full node-based visual programming system, but it lets you create new effects by combining adjustable ‘blocks’, and comes with over 130 presets geared to common effects like flames, smoke and explosions. Particle effects tool Particular gets Effects Builder: a new tool for creating custom effects. Trapcode Particular 2.5: new Effects Builder system and presets It’s capable of quite a range of effects, from thread and ribbon-like forms, to lattices and 3D structures.Īs well as paths, you can generate geometry from mask shapes and the motion of 3D lights and the results can be rendered using image-based lighting and ambient occlusion, with GPU acceleration. Top of the features list is Trapcode Tao (above), a new tool for generating procedural 3D geometry along a path. Trapcode Tao: create customisable path-based geometry

Red Giant has released Trapcode Suite 13, a major update to its set of motion graphics and VFX tools for After Effects, introducing a new plugin, Trapcode Tao, and overhauling existing tools Particular, Shine and Mir. It will grow so large in diameter that it could fill the entire sky from the surface of a surviving planet.Originally posted on 30 October 2015. Approaching the end of its fuel-burning life, the Sun will become much brighter and bigger. Neptune, at 30 times the Earth-Sun distance, will eventually hike out to about 60 times the Earth-Sun distance. In our own solar system, the Sun will throw off about half its mass, so the outer planets’ orbits will drift outward, settling twice as far as they are today. As the red giant loses mass, the star’s gravitational hold on its planets becomes much weaker, so their orbits will expand. The planets' orbits may also become unstable. 'Earth won't be habitable, and the only chance for survival would be for an advanced civilization to migrate to a new planetary home.' 'We'll all be long gone,” Mandell assured us. Joel Green, shown at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, studies young stars and the formation of protoplanetary disks at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

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