Overview
Bring your animations to life with Particle Illusion, your instant particle magic! |
Particle Trails and Lines Enhancements Draw particle trails as a new “lines” option, adding new life to almost any particle simulation! Other new line features allow you to fade the ends, vary thickness with particle size, and more. |
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Updated Gradient Editor and Presets The gradient editor has been greatly improved, with new “flip” and “space” actions, full undo/redo, even a random gradient generator! Add to that new color and alpha gradient presets, and your particle color workflow just got a whole lot more fun! |
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Deflector and Force Improvements Deflectors and Forces are important particle “influencers”, and they’ve both gotten updates in 2023.5:
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Easier to Use The Controls View (parameter list) has been redesigned, with related parameters grouped together in labeled sections. Plus version 2023 introduces parameter “de-emphasis”, which causes parameters that have no effect on the output to dim, helping you to focus on what’s important! |
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3D Models as Emitters Your 3D emitter options have just been infinitely expanded, using 3D models. |
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3D Widgets Working with emitters and other objects in 3D has just become easier with 3D widgets. |
Fluid Dynamics Fluid Dynamics allows you to transform any existing emitter into a complex animation that flows and swirls just like in the real world — or create your own custom animation. Includes 20+ new presets designed by the pros |
Work in 3D Work with emitters, forces, and deflectors in 3D using the integrated camera to navigate through generated particle fields using position, pan, and orbit camera modes. Includes depth of field and motion blur. |
Forces and Deflectors Force objects make it easy to add force fields that create complex movement or can attract or repel particles. The result? Even more interesting, realistic particles — from swirling chaos to controlled flows. Force objects also provide Fluid Dynamics. |
Lines and Turbulence Connect your particles together with lines! Join particles to parent emitters, birth position, or even to other particles to create fresh new geometric mograph looks. |
Easy Preset-Driven Workflow Particle Illusion comes with thousands of preset emitters (via a separate free installer). An integrated search makes it easy to zero in on the effect you’re looking for, and the live preview lets you click and drag to see how it will move. |
Node-based Navigation Particle Illusion lets you create extremely complex effects, but the Node View makes it easier than ever to work with and customize them. Simply select an emitter or particle node and see the corresponding parameters display in the Controls View. |
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