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particleIllusion SE FAQ
How many effects can particleIllusion SE do?
There is no limit to the number of effects you can produce
with particleIllusion SE. There are already over 900 "emitters" (effects)
included with the program, and we release a new free library
of more every month. Each of these should be considered
a "preset", and they can be customized to create subtle
variations or completely new emitters. Although not as
powerful as particleIllusion 3.0 (which has over 1400 emitters
available), SE is still very powerful and flexible.
What are the differences between SE and 3.0?
particleIllusion SE is based on the particleIllusion 2.0
engine, so SE doesn't have all of the newer features that
are in particleIllusion 3.0 (super emitters, forces, "get
color from layer", etc.).
Besides that, what the SE version doesn't have are several
features found in particleIllusion 3.0 that more advanced
users may need. particleIllusion SE has the following limits:
- No Super Emitters
- No Force objects
- More limited particle color options (no "get color from layer" for
instance)
- Single Layer only
- No layer offset/angle
- No layer transparency
- No blockers
- No import/export of position data
- Motion blur settings are fixed -- only on/off
- No stage size presets
- Only supports BMP, JPG, TGA image formats*
- No shape image export
- Maximum shape import size 256x256
- No "Replace Emitter" function
- No numeric entry for data or frame
- No reference graphs*
* Note: Mac OS X version of SE contains reference graphs,
and supports different (and more) file formats
Since particleIllusion SE can only do 1 layer,
and I need to add many layers of effects to my project,
how can it be useful?
Layers in particleIllusion can contain a background image,
image sequence, or movie, and as many particle emitters as
you want. Therefore in SE you can add as many emitters (effects)
as you want, all on a single layer. What you can't do is
have multiple layers of footage with alpha channels inside
particleIllusion SE -- but of course you can layer multiple
particleIllusion renders in your compositing or video editing
application.
How do I change the emitters in the Library window?
I've downloaded all of the additional emitters but they
don't show up in the library window.
The library window only shows the currently-loaded library.
To load another library, r-click (ctrl-click on Mac) and
choose 'Load Library' and locate your library files and select
one.
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