Subject: Re: [AE] Link Trapcode particle size to camera position
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From: Jack Tunnicliffe <jack@javapost.ca>
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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:21:44 -0600
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I'm sure you've thought about trying a longer lens? A wider lens, ie: 28mm w=
ould give you a more forced perspective, what you are describing, a longer l=
ens, ie: 150mm portrait lens lessening depth perspective.

Jack Tunnicliffe
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On 2012-06-20, at 5:58 AM, jarret langmeire <langmeire@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
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> Been dealing with a gnarly issue the past week or so. I'm working on a cou=
ple of star fields which I'm generating using a mixture of Form and Particul=
ar. The issue I'm having is that as the camera moves/flies through the star f=
ield, the stars that are up close to the camera end up being waaaay to large=
 whilst the distant ones disappear. I've been messing around with gradients a=
nd using this as a layer map to control the size and it sort of works, but n=
ot very well on some of the more complicated shots. So I'm wondering whether=
 there's another way to control the particle size in such a way that the clo=
ser a particle is to the camera, the smaller it is? I know this sounds count=
er-intuitive - stars that are closer SHOULD be larger but the look I'm tryin=
g to achieve really requires the stars not to visibly scale up as they come c=
loser (after all, we're talking light-years here).
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> Thanks for any suggestions,
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> Jarret