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Darkling Simulations DIN

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Contents

1 The Stats
2 Purchase Darkling Simulations DIN
3 Demo
4 Description
5 Reviews
6 Support

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The Stats

Developer: Darkling Simulations
Version: 1.0
Platforms: Win 2000 / XP
Host Applications: Adobe After Effects 5.5+, Autodesk Combustion 3
Compatibility with After Effects 7

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Purchase Darkling Simulations DIN

Darkling Simulations DIN

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Demo

Windows Demo

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Description

DIN (Darkling Interactive Noise) is a fast and flexible noise effect plug-in for After Effects 5.5+ and After Effects compatible applications. Procedural noise is a key tool for making everything from fire to force fields to spectacular transitions.

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Features

13 noise basis patterns as well as your own custom basis.
Basis texture size, sharpen, fade, and squeeze parameters.
Fractal complexity and decay parameters.
Spin, placement, and jiggle noise animation parameters.
Control Layer (image control of noises).
10 preset looks to help you get started.

DIN's killer feature is the Control Layer. Control Layers allow you to specify where and how DIN noise effects are applied to your source layer. You can take any source footage or composition and use it to control DIN's Size, Fade, Grid Align, Jiggle Distance, Rotate Align, or Squeeze amount.

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Integration

DIN is designed to integrate well within After Effects and with After Effects built in effects plug-ins. Key features are:

Motion blur support.
16 bit color support.
8 apply modes including an Alpha Blend mode for transitions.
Custom shape layers.

DIN plays well with After Effects built in effects. For example, the ripple animation uses animated grayscale DIN output in conjunction with After Effects' Texturize and Displacement Map to generate a sophisticated raindrop animation.

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Acceleration

Even powerful plugins can be useless if they are slow. You simply don't have time to wait when there is a deadline looming. That is why we made DIN a hardware accelerated plug-in. DIN uses cutting edge OpenGL video card features to render its effects. Even complex noise effects render at interactive rates with modern hardware and graphics accelerator.

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Warning!

DIN requires the latest graphics hardware and drivers to operate. Make sure to download the latest drivers for your graphics card and try the DIN demo to make sure your system can handle the plug-in.

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