Snow - Ulead COOL 3D User Manual

Snow

Simulate winter right on your desktop. With this effect, you can produce a harsh snowstorm or
give a calm ambience to your ski holiday setting. Create snow-covered rooftops and snow-filled
streets. The effect is so real you can actually see snow particles settle on top of your objects
and slowly roll down. To learn how to modify the distance, emission and speed of the particles,
just execute these simple steps in the following tutorial. (Settings: 55 frames, 8 fps.)
To simulate snow on a text object:
1 Select Scene: Image Background in the
EasyPalette file directory. Choose a
landscape image fit for snow.
2 Click on Insert Text and create the word
"cool". Rotate your object slightly to show
the three-dimensional quality of the text.
3 Click the Particle Effects down arrow on
the Object Toolbar and select Snow.
4 Set the Max. density to 999 and the
Emitting rate to 500 in the Attribute Panel.
This will control the number of particles you
would want to appear per frame.
5 Select Sphere as the initial source of
emission for your particle, under Emitter
type.
6 Control the size of your particles under Size
life. Set Initial size to 7, Transition size to
15 and End size to 5.
7 Set Initial size variance to 10, Transition
size variance to 5, and End size variance to
7. We will execute this tutorial with the
easiest settings possible and retain the
remaining parameters of the Attribute Panel
under their default settings.
8 To control the speed of the particles, make
sure you set Frames to 55 and the fps to 8.
9 Click Play to preview your project.
Note: To achieve a different angle of the particles, click
Rotate or alter the Distance by selecting Camera in
the Attribute Panel.
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