Motion Media

The Sky's no Longer the Limit
Give your compositions what they've been missing with this unique mapping tool. The Trapcode Horizon plug-in is a camera-aware image mapping tool that ties your After Effects camera to a 3D world. By applying images or gradients to the inside of a giant sphere, Horizon creates an infinite background. No matter where your camera is directed, the simple controls make photorealistic backgrounds or sky gradients a snap.

Floating Point Support Offers support for Floating point mapping of .exr image maps in After Effects CS3 Equirectilinear Image Mapping Familiar to 3D artists, "equirectilinear" images are maps that provide full 360-degree coverage of a sphere. Horizon will map these images seamlessly onto the background. Gradients Built-in gradient modes provide up to 8 colors for generating colors on the virtual sphere.

Coverage Controls With controls for horizontal and vertical coverage of the sphere, you can determine how much of the virtual sphere to map — especially useful for using non-panoramic images or video. Controlled Zoom Mapping in Horizon depends on the Field of View in After Effects, so you can create a zoom effect by animating the field of view of the After Effects camera.

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