[ #AfterEffects #MotionGraphics ]Plexus is a next-gen particle engine for Adobe After Effects that lets you create, manipulate and visualize data in a procedural manner. Rowbyte has announced that its After Effects plugin Plexus 3 will be released on July 18th 2016.
Object based UIPlexus 3 comes with a tree based Object Panel, that helps you organize multiple Plexus objects with in the layer. It improves workflow dramatically and the panel itself is dockable anywhere with in After Effects. It helps you keep track of your Geometry Objects, Effector Objects, Render Objects and Groups by allowing you to select only what you need so no more scrolling through a long Effects Control Window.
Motion BlurNow along with Depth of Field, you can add Motion Blur to create cinematic animations. You can use either comp settings or custom camera shutter values.
Sound EffectorA new Sound Effector Object let’s you sample a waveform from a sound layer in AE and apply it to vertex position or scale or color. You can also Echo the sampled waveform so that the sound is sampled over time.
Slicer ObjectThe Slicer Object let’s you ‘slice’ through a mesh and create interesting visualizations. It works best with OBJ meshes and can be used very well along with the instance object.
Seamless BeamsRender sweeping volumetric beams with seamless rendering. Beams no longer show any ‘overlapping joints’. Not only it improves rendering performance, but also renders much more accurate colors.
Designed for AE’s New ArchitecturePlexus 3 was designed from the ground up to take advantage of AE’s new multi-threaded architecture introduced in 13.5. That means better support for Persistent Caching, better performance and the best part, automagically refresh Instances. You can have many nested instances and all the changes are automatically detected. Also, just in case you need to refresh cache, a new button that let’s you do that with a single click without affecting caches of other layers.
Unified RenderingUnified rendering allows all objects to have a common 3D space. It allows points, lines & polys created by multiple objects to intersect with one another in z-space.
Loop NoiseYou can seamlessly loop noise values for animations. You can cycle through noise evolution and it works for position, scale & color values.
SVG Sequence Export
Export entire Composition or the current Work area to an SVG Sequence. You can choose the right frame to print later or use them all in sequence to play an animated sequence.
Custom Visibility SettingsYou can gradually fade or vanish points, lines or polys when they get close to the camera or far away from the camera. You can also custom hide polygons that face towards or away from the camera.
Depth Map CullingYou can use a Depth Map exported by a 3D program or Buena Depth Cue to occlude pixels directly. It helps composite Plexus in 3D scenes with ease.
Improved OBJ ImportYou can now import OBJ files and file sequences using AE’s default file importer, which helps you organize footage better and collect project files. OBJ Object now also imports normals and texture co-ordinates along with vertex positions and facets.
Nested CompositionsCollapse Transforms for a nested composition, and Plexus behaves like a native AE composition. It reacts to Camera and lights of the native composition. It allows you to pre-comp Plexus layers and still have the flexibility to animate Camera movements.
Null Object PerformanceNull Objects have similar performance to point lights if you’re running the latest version of After Effects. No need to convert Nulls exported from 3D applications to point lights anymore.
Path Object ImprovementsPath Object is improved with scaling controls for replication and tessellation for closed paths. Now there is yet another way to create 3D text in After Effects, but make it a little more interesting.
CompatibilityPlexus 3 will be compatible with Adobe After Effects CS5.5, CS6, CC, CC 2014, CC 2015 and later versions. Mac OS X 10.8 or later and Windows 7 and later versions are supported.
AvailabilityPlexus 2 users will get discounted upgrade pricing. If you purchased Plexus 2 on or after Jun 1st 2016, you’ll get a free upgrade to Plexus 3. More at
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