YY_ShockRing

This plugin generates a ring as a texture for shockwaves, etc for visual effects. It has enough options to be fairly flexible, but not so much as to be overbearing.

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YY_ShockRing

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Adobe dropped Pixel Bender support in After Effects CS6 so this plugin will not work in CS6.

This plugin generates a ring as a texture for shockwaves, etc for visual effects. It has enough options to be fairly flexible, but not so much as to be overbearing.

Options are:

Center: Center point for the ring
Radius: Radius of the ring
Feather: Softness of the ring’s outer edge
Expansion: Thickness of the ring
Opacity: Opacity of the ring
Color 1: Color near the outside
Color 2: Color near the inside
Smooth: Smooth interpolation (as opposed to linear)

Render Mode:

None: Render on transparent
Normal: Render on background
Add: Additive blending on background
(Stencil) Multiply: Reveals the background, kind of like stencil alpha
(Stencil) Multiply+Alpha: Same as above, but on transparent

: YY_ShockRing UI

: YY_ShockRing Demo

Version History

1.0 – Initial release – Dec 2010

Last updated December 23rd, 2010
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Tags: CS4, CS5, CS5.5, Generate, Pixel Bender, Ring, Shockwave

Andrew Yang

About the author

I am a student, dabbling in programming and design.

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9 Comments

Helmar (Reply to this comment)
March 3, 2011

The movie “The Secret” had a nice effect of a thought expanding into space like a shock wave. Can this be used in a similar fashion?
Howard Waddell (Reply to this comment)
February 1, 2011

Andrew – thank you so much again for the technical assistance. I was able to rotate the shockring, duplicate it several times and stack them, apply a radial blur, and built a thick expanding torus, which is the effect I wanted. Thanks!

Howy
Howard Waddell (Reply to this comment)
January 26, 2011

I thought that I had tried that, but I will give it another go!

Thanks for the quick reply!

Best,

Howy
Howard Waddell (Reply to this comment)
January 26, 2011

Hi Andrew!
First – thanks for all of the great work! I am new to AE (CS5), so please forgive my ignorance.
My main question: how can I rotate the ring on the plane of the image? When I put it on a layer, it shows as a flat ring as seen from the top. The controls for the shockring (including the ones for the layer) do not allow me to rotate it so that it is seen edge on. You were obviously able to do so, but (newbie me) have not been able to figure out how you did it.

I used it (as I could manage) in this draft trailer. Very cool effect, but I feel like I am just scratching the surface…

http://vimeo.com/19166958
- Andrew Yang (Reply to this comment)
  January 26, 2011
  
  I think what you’re looking for is the 3D layer switch. This effect is a 2D effect which is meant to generate a texture that you can rotate/position in 3D space.
  
  It’s as simple as enabling 3D on the layer, and fiddling with the rotation controls.
  
  Cheers,
  Andrew
Howard Waddell (Reply to this comment)
January 26, 2011

I have some questions about using this plugin – how can I ask them of the author?
- Andrew Yang (Reply to this comment)
  January 26, 2011
  
  Ask away, my friend

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