Apple Motion 2 User Manual
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Chapter 8
Working With Particles
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Pick From Range: Particles are tinted at random, with the range of possible colors
defined by the Gradient Editor. A point on the gradient is randomly chosen, so the
relative sizes of each color region determine the frequency of the color being used.
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Take Image Color: When you choose this mode, each new particle’s color is based
on the color of the image at the position where the particle was generated. This
mode is only available with Image Emitter Shapes.
Scale: A slider that defines the scale of every particle of a cell. Click the disclosure
triangle next to the Scale parameter to reveal separate X Scaling and Y Scaling
subparameters, which can be used to scale the width and height of generated particles
separately. This is the initial scale of the particle (compared to the Scale Over Life
behavior).
Note: When you use an image as a particle cell source and set a low Scale value, it is
recommended that you set the Antialiasing Method in Project Preferences to Best. See
“
” on page 107 for more information.
Scale set to 200%
Scale set to 50%
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