Red Giant Trapcode Particular Upgrd V2

Red Giant Trapcode Particular 2.1 Features

• Realistic natural effects: Puffy white clouds, shiny bubbles, swirling dust motes, rain, falling snow, realistic smoke, or flocking birds are all possible within Particular, and you never need to leave After Effects.
• Faster rendering in Version 2: The new version can render hundreds of thousands of particles per second by taking advantage of multi-core processors. The new 3D renderer delivers full shading of particles, and yet the engine can be up to twice as fast as previous versions.
• Fly through your creations: Go far beyond other plug-ins with Particular's full support for After Effects' camera controls and lights. Enhanced custom particle shading offers full 3D rotation and the ability to fly through particles.
• Sprites and Polygons: Custom particles allow the use of layers as 2D sprites (as in version 1.5) and as the new Textured Polygon type.
• Light Me Up: Shade all particle types from up to 128 lights in After Effects. Shading can emulate light falloff to make the lighting results look more natural.
• Dynamic Self-shadowing: Shadowlet rendering can cast shadows on both main and aux particles, adding realistic self-shadowing from a single light source.
• Advanced Physics Engine: Particular now offers support for glitch free-animation of turbulent properties.
• Backward Compatibility: Projects from earlier versions will render with similar results in version 2, but with access to new features and faster output times.
• Full Floating-Point Support: Improved bit-depth support now offers high-quality, 32 bit-per-channel rendering, allowing full-range output with HDR results.
• User-driven Improvements: Version 2 offers a number of small improvements, including: custom particle layers no longer have to start at the same frame as Particular; a new custom particle time-sampling mode; support for the Adobe color picker; and many other small bug fixes and enhancements.
• Auxiliary Particles: In Particular, particles can emit their own particles, enabling objects to leave bright or smoky trails.
• Physics Time Factor: Freeze time while moving the camera around in a scene, Matrix-style.
• Non-Square Pixels: Particular handles non-square pixel aspect ratios correctly.
• Reflection Maps: Textured Polygon particles can use a layer as a reflection map to add dynamic color changes to particles as they rotate in 3D. This feature is ideal for adding glints to rotating particles.
• Streak It Up: Streaklet particles resemble long-exposure light effects, as seen in Apple's iPod Nano Remastered commercials.
• Transform Your World: The Transform World feature allows the entire workspace to be offset or rotated in 3D space without moving the After Effects camera for increased animation flexibility.
• Rotation, Rotation, Rotation: Textured Polygon particles can be fully rotated in 3D space, with random rotation direction and speed. Also, particles can be automatically oriented to the direction of their motion.
• Millions and Millions of Particles: The maximum particle limit now allows quick bursts of up to one million particles per second!
• Many Views : Orthographic rendering support allows you to view particles from After Effects' built-in camera views (Top, Right, Left, Bottom), making it much easier to adjust particle motion in 3D space.
• Presets for SD and HD: Version 2 offers 45 updated presets with support for SD and HD resolution.
• Camera Integration: Particular offers complete integration with After Effects' comp camera.
• Built-In Help: Extensive user guide features step-by-step examples.
• Motion Blur: Built-in motion blur feature lends realism to moving particles.