About Red Giant Trapcode Horizon 1.1
The Trapcode Horizon v1.1 Software Plug-in from Red Giant is a unique mapping tool that bridges the gap between the After Effects camera and a 3D world. It allows you to apply images or gradients to the interior of a sphere. This creates an infinite background, regardless of where you turn the AE camera. Simple controls help to make photorealistic backgrounds and sky gradients a reality
Red Giant Trapcode Horizon 1.1 Features
Virtual reality backgrounds: Trapcode Horizon is the only plug-in that creates QuickTime VR-like experiences inside After Effects. If you have experienced virtual walkthroughs on the Web for real estate, parks, monuments and more, you can now recreate these animations right inside
Gradient and image map modes: Choose from gradient or image map modes in the plug-in, each offering a unique way to provide interesting backgrounds. Gradient mode offers both point and line generation.
3D Camera Integration: Horizon ties automatically into the After Effects 3D camera, so that the background image is always correctly drawn from the active camera's field of view.
Floating Point Support: Offers support for Floating point mapping of .exr image maps in After Effects CS3
Equirectilinear Image Mapping: Familiar to 3D artists, "equirectilinear" images are maps that provide full 360-degree coverage of a sphere. Horizon will map these images seamlessly onto the background.
Gradients: Built-in gradient modes provide up to 8 colors for generating colors on the virtual sphere.
Coverage Controls: With controls for horizontal and vertical coverage of the sphere, you can determine how much of the virtual sphere to map-especially useful for using non-panoramic images or video.
Controlled Zoom: Mapping in Horizon depends on the Field of View in After Effects, so you can create a zoom effect by animating the field of view of the After Effects camera.