Motion Media

Trapcode Particular goes way beyond the basics with realistic natural effects for Nuke. Its powerful features include 3D camera integration, lighting control for shaded particles, custom textured polygons, depth of field, and physics controls such as air resistance, gravity and turbulence. Particular is used widely in motion pictures such as Spider Man 3, Terminator: Salvation and Angels & Demons and in TV shows like Lost. Get the industry standard tool for broadcast particle design, with new features developed specifically for Nuke.

Features

• Millions and Millions of Particles The maximum particle limit allows quick bursts of up to one million particles per second!


• 3D Camera Integration Particular OFX offers complete integration with Nukes' 3D camera and 3D preview.


• Sprites and Polygons Custom particles allow the use of image node or movies as 2D Textured Polygons.


• Light Me Up Shade the particles with eight built-in lights or tie in Nukeâ™s lights for greater control. Shading on the particles emulates light falloff to make the particles look more natural.


• Dynamic Self-shadowing Shadowlet rendering can cast shadows on both main and aux particles, adding realistic self-shadowing from a single light source.


• Advanced Physics Engine Particular offers support for glitch free-animation of turbulent properties.


• Full Floating-Point Support Improved bit-depth support offers high-quality 32 bit-per-channel rendering, which allows full-range output with HDR results.


• Auxiliary Particles In Particular, particles can emit their own â˜auxiliaryâ™ particles, enabling objects to leave bright or smoky trails.


• Reflection Maps Textured Polygon particles can use a reflection map to add dynamic color changes to particles as they rotate in 3D. This feature is ideal for adding glints to rotating particles.


• Rotation, Rotation, Rotation Textured Polygon particles can fully rotate in 3D space, with randomized rotation direction and speed, and automatic orientation to the direction of their motion.


• Streak It Up Streaklet particles resemble long-exposure light effects, as seen in Apple's iPod Nano Remastered commercials.


• Transform Your World For animation flexibility, the Transform World feature allows the entire Particular workspace to be offset or rotated in 3D space without moving the Nuke camera.


• Motion Blur Built-in motion blur feature lends realism to moving particles.


• Physics Time Factor Freeze time while moving the camera around in a scene, Matrix-style.


• Non-Square Pixels Particular handles non-square pixel aspect ratios correctly.


• Built-In Help Extensive user guide features and instructive video tutorials give step-by-step examples.