You should be able to adjust the emission region in the emitter section, you can change the emitter type to a box in Trapcode Particular. Also in a couple of days we are releasing version 2 it’s a free update to anyone who has downloaded this item, so that might be helpful for you.

The project is compatible with After Effects CS6 and Trapcode Particular 3. So if you open the projects in a later version of After Effects or Particular they will open without issue because of backwards compatible. Just to be sure, I tried opening the projects in using the most recent version of AE (2018) with Trapcode Particular 4 and there are no issues on my end. You should get a message informing you that the project will be automatically (converted) to the current version, just click OK to that.

Hi, you weren’t duped as the item provides details of any required plugins like Trapcode Particular in the description. You can also download a free trail of Trapcode Particular from Red Giants website. Lastly you can contact Envato support team and request a refund, sorry if this caused any inconvenience.

I would refer back to the overview video included, it might be a light used as a locator instead of a null.

When you download the item, your also getting the licence to use it on commercial projects.

Thanks, you have an impressive portfolio, have you ever considered making tutorials on your Youtube channel?

It is possible that you have an different version of Trapcode Particular. It’s not a big issue, it just means that the expression linking the null to emitter may have to be reconnected. It’s very easy to do and this tutorial will show you how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV56P-MG0ms

I’m also working on an update that replaces the emitter nulls with lights. It should help with compatibility. Should be available by tomorrow.

Thanks for your reply, I think I understand your issue. I’ll link a tutorial from RedGiant which better explains how to control emitters in Trapcode Particular. In your project, there are three layers one for fire, smoke, embers. So you will have to pick whip all three of them to the null object.

Here is the tutorial, it shows you how to do this about 4 minutes into the video:

Good luck Zack

Thank you soooooooo much for the help it worked perfectly. Your getting the highest rating from me on this cool fire. One last thing i know it mentioned the 3d camera on there for making the fire move in 3d space to match camera movement any tips or tutorials you can point me to in order to learn this technique more efficient. And if the 16 and 32 bit color correction makes the color of my whole shot super bright is there a way i can fix that.

Hi glad to here that. Yes, If you want to composite the fire into a moving shot, you will probably want to use the after effects camera tracker. To get a 3D track / solve in after effects. The particles exist in 3D space, so if you bring a moving camera into that scene, the fire will act like it’s part of the shot and you will be able to position the fire into your scene. In the rendering/motion blur settings of tracpcode particluar you can tell it to disregard or include motion blur from the camera. Finally, you want to treat the fire like an FX pass, so once you’ve got the animation and the camera sorted. Shut off the footage and just render the fire (from the export comp) with alpha. I recommend a Quicktime file with PNG Alpha format. Not as large as an animation but still mostly lossless. Then composite the rendered fire pass onto your footage in a separate comp, this will give you more control over the compositing.