Trapcode Magic still works with the latest version of Trapcode Particular V6 and After Effects 2024. I would have liked to keep expanding these collections and releasing new packs but unfortunately I haven’t been able to achieve those goals. I appreciate the investment you had in development, I’m just sorry to have caused disappointment.

Hi, thanks for asking, most of the project durations are set to 30sec. If you increase the length in project settings, you would also need to unhide all the hidden layers (Shy Switch) and extend them otherwise nothing will render past that point. However, I would actually recommend triming the section of your footage that requires VFX. By pre-rendering beforehand so that you can import a smaller file and then re-intergrate it into the final cut once the work is done.

Most of them work on there own as assets, but they are designed to be used in the export comp to get all the fx to look right, like displacements on the shield.

Hi, it sounds like you have missing QuickTime formats which is preventing you from opening the standard MOV files in After Effects. You should be able to fix the issue by downloading the QuickTime player. If that doesn’t work you can also open the Creative Cloud Desktop app and update or reinstall After Effects CC 2022 to the latest version (v 22.5) and the associated Media Encoder (v 22.5) then restart the PC. Quicktime is a commonly used format so hopefully one of these steps will solve the issue!

Considering the performance costs doing native 4K simulations in Trapcode Particular would just be impractical. That’s why we released the video format converter which includes the HD to 4K preset. I have no planned release date, but it’s the next agenda after finshing some tutorials for Trapcode Elements.

The protego_02 is 1 of 5 pre-rendered assets that I rendered from the Protego project file particles comp, it’s the same simulation that was used to make those assets so you can generate more.

I’m aware that one file warns of a currupted zip but you can render it again from the Protego project, you have access to the exact same simulation used to make that asset. I will be migrating the projects over to Particular V6 end of May so I’ll double check that it unzips without any issues, thanks for using and taking an interest in the product.

Check that you can install Trapcode Particular V6 in After Effects 2018 first, although going forward I’m going to recommend After Effects CC 2020 as a soft requirement to garantee the projects look and run as intended.

The Protego sim is 3D but a bit slow if you want to quickly add lots of spell impacts which is why I included a set of pre-rendered assets in the Particles Comp. The Protego Maxima took too long to render so I pre-rendered the texture and placed it on a CC Sphere. As you can still rotate the camera to get different perspectives and in most shots it works fine. Plus CC sphere allows you to split the shield into inside & outside render which makes it possible to place actors inside the shield!

My bad, thank you for your answer!

Actually I can’t seem to get anything to work. is it at all possible to hop on a zoom call with you so you could show me how to use everything I would be more than happy to pay for that since im really exited to use you product

I think im running into import problems. could it be that me using a Mac is the problem here?

This pack uses some of the Red Giant Particular sprites which are located in (C:\ProgramData\Red Giant\Trapcode Packs\TC14\Sprites\Common). This install path is slightly different on a Mac so if you have issues with missing sprites / import issues. This can be solved by right-clicking on the missing file in after effects and redirecting it to (Users/Shared/Red Giant/Trapcode Packs/TC14/Sprites/Common).

The pack was made with Trapcode Particular 5.1 the latest version before Trapcode Particular 6 was released. So if you use that version you will have to unhide the layers by clicking the ‘shy switch’ in After Effects and click migrate on each of the layers. Some of the projects have multiple Particular layers so it might be worth holding off until this pack is updated.

Thanks for the reply. How do you propose to notify possible and current customers when the pack is updated?

An email is sent out when the update is ready, plus you will see it here so you can redownload the file for free with the new content!

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It appears that 1 of the 7 pre-rendered ‘Protego’ assets is missing from that catagory. But it’s just an isolated archive error and won’t affect the fuctionality of any of the projects or other assets, including the Protego project. I will add this to the list of improvements when we work on the next patch, much appreicated.

I see below that there is an update for this coming as well for V6 of Particular. Does that have an approximate release date? Thanks.

I’m going to work on a small compatibility patch once the major update for Trapcode Elements is released in May. Have you tried opening the projects in V6 and clicking the migrate project button?

Any update to 2.0? It’s been a year now.

Thanks

Hi thanks for downloading the pack, please send me an email to zack.cgvisuals@gmail.com and let me know which project and version of Particular your using. I’m also going to upload a tutorial very soon about using the pack effeciently. For example when your customizing the effect for you shot. It’s recomended to disable the motion blur and in the rendering section of particular, reduce the visible particles so you can work more quickly. Pre-render the particles comp and then composite the effect in the export comp. So you break it down in to stages as you only need to go full quality / full res when your exporting the final render. So email me and I’ll send you a link when the tutorial is uploaded later today.

Thanks, same to you!

Much appreicated