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The Stats
- Developer: Trapcode
- Version: 1.1
- Platforms: Mac OSX, Windows
- Compatibility with After Effects and Premiere CS4, Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility, Microsoft Vista Compatibility, 64-Bit Plug-ins (Adobe CS5 Compatible)
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Purchase
- Trapcode Horizon
- Trapcode Suite - All Trapcode Plug-ins
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Description
Give your compositions what they've been missing with this unique mapping tool. The Trapcode Horizon plug-in is a camera-aware image mapping tool that ties your After Effects camera to a 3D world. By applying images or gradients to the inside of a giant sphere, Horizon creates an infinite background. No matter where your camera is directed, the simple controls make photorealistic backgrounds or sky gradients a snap.
Features
- Floating Point Support Offers support for Floating point mapping of .exr image maps in After Effects CS3
- Equirectilinear Image Mapping Familiar to 3D artists, “equirectilinear” images are maps that provide full 360-degree coverage of a sphere. Horizon will map these images seamlessly onto the background.
- Gradients Built-in gradient modes provide up to 8 colors for generating colors on the virtual sphere.
- Coverage Controls With controls for horizontal and vertical coverage of the sphere, you can determine how much of the virtual sphere to map—especially useful for using non-panoramic images or video.
- Controlled Zoom Mapping in Horizon depends on the Field of View in After Effects, so you can create a zoom effect by animating the field of view of the After Effects camera.
Highlights
Virtual reality backgrounds
Trapcode Horizon is the only plug-in that creates QuickTime VR-like experiences inside After Effects. If you have experienced virtual walkthroughs on the Web for real estate, parks, monuments and more, you can now recreate these animations right inside After Effects with full control over 3D motion and the camera’s field of view. If you have longed to create a more scripted VR experience, Horizon is the perfect tool.
Gradient and image map modes
Choose from gradient or image map modes in the plug-in, each offering a unique way to provide interesting backgrounds. Gradient mode offers both point and line generation. Point mode generates smoothly blended color regions from up to 8 points on the virtual sphere, while line mode creates converging lines of colors that are perfect for generating a sky gradient.
3D Camera Integration
Horizon ties automatically into the After Effects 3D camera, so that the background image is always correctly drawn from the active camera’s field of view. The automatic camera motion means that other 3D effects like Trapcode Particular and Form will move correctly with background and provide the viewer with a much-needed orientation in 3D space.
Examples
Horizon Lines
This video shows an artifical horizon that remains constant while the camera swoops around various text elements. The Horizon plug-in is set to generate a horizon line that moves naturally as the camera tilts.
Horizon Points
Trapcode Horizon is generating smooth color gradation across the background sphere making it possible for the camera to swing wildly with the artist having to worry about filling the field of view.
Smoketrail Flight Cam
In this video, Horizon provides a highly-detailed artificial background while a camera tracks a smoky contrail being generated by Trapcode Particular. The background is a single still and the camera is tied to the Particular emission point to create a photorealistic scene with only After Effects layers.
Smoketrail Ground Cam
This video illustrates the same smoky contrail as in the Flight Cam movie, but shows it from the perspective of a viewer on the ground with Trapcode Particular generating the smoke trail.
System Requirements
Our tests have shown that our products perform best when used with the system configurations listed below. Although many of our products will run on older or less-powerful systems, those listed below are the minimum system requirements which we support.
Apple Macintosh
- Mac OSX 10.4.11 and later
- Power Mac G5, Mac Intel
- 1 GB of RAM
- 30 MB of Hard Drive space
PC / Windows
- Windows XP SP1 or later
- Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit
- Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or faster (or AMD equivalent)
- 1 GB of RAM
- 30 MB of Hard Drive space
Host Applications
Trapcode Horizon runs only in After Effects. Each purchase and serial number allows the owner to use the product on a single computer at a time. Except where noted, the features are the same in all operating systems.
- Adobe After Effects CS4, CS3, 7
Please ensure that the host version is compatible with your operating system. Check with application provider for specifics.
