Fly through a Galaxy using Trapcode Particular

Using the Red Giant plugin for Adobe After Effects, I show you how to create a 3D Milky Way style galaxy you can fly through. The project file is included below.

After some terrible singing and explainer at the start, I jump into After Effects and talk you through all the steps needed. First, we set up an emitter light and control its position using an expression to move it in a Fibonacci / Golden Spiral. Then we make the stars, followed by gas and finally dust as separate systems. Once completed, you have a 3D galaxy you can fly around.

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Expression used:
Y = 0;
X = Math.sin(Math.PI*galaxySize)*Math.exp(galaxySize)*direction;
Z = Math.cos(Math.PI*galaxySize)*Math.exp(galaxySize)*direction;
[X,Y,Z]

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CC Particle World Galaxy Tutorial:    • 3D Spiral Galaxy using CC Particle World  

Project Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/y72bxqzpl7z...

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:23 Tutorial starts
2:29 Adding Golden Spiral Expression
4:30 Adding Particular - Stars
6:54 Adding Gas particles
11:06 Duplicating the particle system to create the dust particles
12:18 Curves effect settings
12:39 Comparison with CC Particle World

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