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Radiowaves. Turbocharged.
Create elegant geometric shapes in 3D space with Rowbyte Aura, a procedural plug-in for After Effects. It’s akin to a particle system but instead of rendering small particles all over the place, it generates vector-like shapes (waves) that change over time, much like the classic Radiowaves plug-in. It renders hundreds of thousands of high-frequency waves without sweat and creates mesmerizing animations.
Rowbyte Aura Now includes Multi-Frame Rendering (MFR) and SVG Export!
Rowbyte Aura Intro
Watch this beautiful intro animation created entirely using Aura!
Rowbyte Aura Highlights
Much like the beloved classic ‘Radiowaves’ plug-in, Aura is very versatile yet simple. Allows the artist to experiment with many different styles and procedural movements. Some of the special features of Aura are listed below.
GPU Accelerated High-Frequency Rendering
Aura is designed to render wave systems with really high frequencies effortlessly using the GPU. The more the merrier. A render quality setting gives you complete control to set the tradeoff between quality and performance.
3D Camera & Depth of Field
Aura is 3D camera-aware within After Effects. You can also create beautiful camera effects like Depth of Field Bokeh with custom Aperture settings.
Turbulent Noise
No plug-in is fun without Turbulent Noise! You can apply noise to waves that evolve over time in Aura. Nuanced noise parameters give you all the controls needed to make subtle animations using noise.
Advanced Wave Params
All wave controls have a start and end parameters and many controls have graph parameters to affect how they change over time.
Motion Paths
Make waves follow along a Motion Path. Useful for arbitrary movement of waves and also extrusions.
Multiple Layer Producers
Use 3D layers in the composition to create multiple Wave Producers for a single Aura instance.
Custom Shapes using Masks
Use the built-in polygon shape generator or create custom shapes using AE’s built-in masks. You can also convert text layers to masks and utilize them to generate waves using Aura.
Band Rendering
Visualize waves using a ‘Band’ Render Mode. Creates ‘bands’ between waves to create interesting visualizations.
Band Rendering
Visualize waves using a ‘Band’ Render Mode. Creates ‘bands’ between waves to create interesting visualizations.
Surface Rendering
Render smooth flowing surfaces that encompass all the waves using the Surface Render Mode. Highly useful to create extruded geometrical animations and surface renderings without having to render high-frequency waves in some situations.
Dots Rendering Mode
Render Dots instead of Lines or Surfaces. New in v1.1 due to popular demand!
Designed for AE
Aura was designed from the ground up to take advantage of After Effects’ new multi-threaded architecture introduced in recent versions of Creative Cloud. That means better support for persistent caching and better rendering performance.
Description
System Requirements
After Effects 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017
Change Log
1.2.5 – Dec 15, 2021
– Fixed Rendering Issues on Intel GPUs.
1.2.4 – Nov 23, 2021
– Floating License Compatibility Update
1.2.3 – Oct 26, 2021
– Updated Installers.
1.2.2b – Mar 15, 2021
1.2.2 – Jun 2, 2020
1.2.0 – Jan 15, 2020
1.1.4 – Dec 9, 2019
– Fixed cache invalidation issues.
1.1.3 – Nov 26, 2019
1.1.2 – Nov 6, 2019
– Minor bugfixes.
1.1.1b – Sep 19, 2019
- Notarized installer to make it compatible with macOS Catalina
1.1.1 – Aug 16, 2019
- Fixed bug that caused waves to stutter after the end of the lifespan.
1.1 – July 10, 2019
New features/changes include:
- Dots Rendering Mode.
- Color Maps for gradients.
- Gradient Position Mode.
- Compatibility update with Floating License Server.
1.0 – Jun 3, 2019
Initial Release
Tutorials
After Effects: Aura - Multiple Producers w/ 3D Layers
This tutorial will teach you how to use 3d layers to create multiple producer points in Rowbyte Aura for After Effects.
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