Answers.Body: <p>You can use the layer-emitter for that. Particular will look for the alpha and spawn more particles where areas are more opaque. Just make sure that your text-layer is precomped and set as a 3D-layer. Then, from the drop-down menu of particular, choose the layer-emitter, open the tab of the layer-emitter further down and select your text-precomp. You might wanna up the particle count as thin text may not cause a single one to spawn, and you will think you did something wrong. Alternatively, use the layer-grid-emitter to significantly up the particle-count. Just make sure to disperse the particles using wind or Spin-Amplitude down in the physics-&gt;Air tab.</p>
  <p>I hope I was able to help you, have a great day!</p>
  
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Body: <p>Can anyone point me in the direction of how to set up Particular to generate this text effect?</p>
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  <p>In particular (pun absolutely intended) how to contain particles within the boundaries of the text before dispersing them.</p>
  <p>I'm using Trapcode Particular v16.</p>
  
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Title: How to set up Trapcode Particular as a bounded text object, then disperse it
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ThreadText: # How to set up Trapcode Particular as a bounded text object, then disperse it
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-11-20)
  
  Can anyone point me in the direction of how to set up Particular to generate this text effect?
  
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  In particular (pun absolutely intended) how to contain particles within the boundaries of the text before dispersing them.
  
  I'm using Trapcode Particular v16.
  
  **Tags:** after-effects, plugins
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-11-23. Score: 0
  
  You can use the layer-emitter for that. Particular will look for the alpha and spawn more particles where areas are more opaque. Just make sure that your text-layer is precomped and set as a 3D-layer. Then, from the drop-down menu of particular, choose the layer-emitter, open the tab of the layer-emitter further down and select your text-precomp. You might wanna up the particle count as thin text may not cause a single one to spawn, and you will think you did something wrong. Alternatively, use the layer-grid-emitter to significantly up the particle-count. Just make sure to disperse the particles using wind or Spin-Amplitude down in the physics->Air tab.
  
  I hope I was able to help you, have a great day!
  
  
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