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circuitFX

  • Compatibility After Effects
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Author: Real Creations

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$29.99
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Quick Overview

circuitFX is a tool for After Effects designed to create graphical circuit boards. The circuit pattern is generated randomly with every button press. Apart from the circuit lines and circles, circuitFX also creates, chips, resistors, and capacitors. It has the ability to put all of the needed parts in a single shape layer or create separate shape layers for each part of the board. Its ideal for technology or sci-fi related projects, animated backgrounds, HUDs, etc.

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 circuitFX v1.8

 




circuitFX is an exciting new tool for After Effects designed to create
graphical circuit boards.

The circuit pattern is generated randomly with every button press.

Apart from the circuit lines and circles, circuitFX also creates,
chips, resistors and capacitors.

It has the ability to put all of the needed parts in a single shape layer
or create separate shape layers for each part of the board.

 

 

 


The latest update of circuitFX brings two new types of shapes for the start & end of each circuit line.
You can now select between Cross, N-Gon and the default Circle. With the N-Gon shape you can create triangles, squares, hexagons etc. Below are a few examples:

circuitFX - shapes

 


The latest update also adds support for the "Difference" mask mode.
circuitFX apart from the "Add" and "Subtract", it now supports the "Difference" mask mode.
This is an important addition if you are converting text-to-masks in order to generate a circuit inside each letter of a word

 

There are ten (10) circuit direction options to choose from.

circuitFX - directions

 
circuitFX - line masks circuitFX - texture map
circuitFX can create a layer with the circuit lines as masks, which can be
used as a source with 3rd-party plug-ins (such as Element3D)		 circuitFX can also be used as a texture map layer



Version 1.6 of circuitFX brought the ability to use bezier masks

circuitFX - bezier masks
older versions
 version 1.6 and newer

 

 

circuitFX features three generation modes:

• Fill out, fills the whole composition with the circuit board and its components.
• Center-out, leaves a user defined center square empty (simulating a CPU socket).
• Using Masks, uses masks from the grid guide layer to mask in/out parts of the circuit.

 circuitFX_modes




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You can easily adjust the the X and Y grid dimensions, for a more dense or scattered pattern.
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The populate slider adjusts the percentage of the grid points that are going to be used.
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You can adjust the minimum and maximum number of vertices of each circuit line.

circuit_fx_line_vertices




In the Center-Out mode, you can use the radius % slider, to adjust the size of the empty center rectangle.
radius

 

 

The orientation of the circuit lines is also adjustable.
circuitFX orientation controls

 

 

You can also adjust the direction strength bias (for the examples below, orientation is set to "diagonal").
circuitFX direction strength



You can now add clusters to the circuit lines.
Clusters are circuit lines with multiple offsets applied, to simulate parallel circuit paths.

circuitFX - clusters

 

 

 There is a also a generation mode that uses masks from a grid guide layer to mask in/out points.
Here is how the process works:

circuitfx_using_masks

 

The Using Masks mode is a five-step process:

  1. You adjust the "Grid X and Grid Y" number (this adjusts the density of the grid guide points and your final circuit)
  2. Select the "Using Masks" mode
  3. Click the "Create Grid Guide" button to make the grid
  4. Draw a mask(s) on the grid guide layer (be sure you are creating a mask and not a shape)
  5. With the grid guide layer selected in the timeline, you press the "Create circuit by using masks" button


  • You can draw as many masks as you want on the grid guide layer. circuitFX uses all the masks in the grid guide layer as long as they are set on the Add or Subtrack mask path mode.

  • You don't have to create the grid guide layer every time you want to generate a circuit. If you are happy with the density of the grid points  (Grid X and Grid Y values) you just select an already created grid guide layer and create new circuits.

 
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You can easily adjust the number, size, size randomness,
color of the chips, resistors and capacitors.

You can also easily adjust the lines and circles color and width.

There is also an option to avoid circuit lines from crossing each other.

Finally, you can adjust the trim start, trim end and
trim offset of the lines to easily create complicated animations,
like electric current flowing through the board.


circuitFX is compatible with:

  • After Effects CS6
  • After Effects CC
  • After Effects CC 2014
  • After Effects CC 2015
  • After Effects CC 2015.3
  • After Effects CC 2017
  • After Effects CC 2018
  • After Effects CC 2019
  • After Effects 2020

on both Windows and macOS (+Catalina) platforms.


Below is an excellent example of implementing circuitFX in a commercial production.
The 2018 Game Developers Choice Awards by Kert Gartner.
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circuitFX v1.80 - User Guide
  • example v1.4
  • example v1.4 - white
  • circuitFX - texture map
  • circuitFX - line masks
  • shape examples
After Effects 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6

1.80  (Current version)  -  Jun 2, 2020

- added: support for the "Difference" mask mode. circuitFX apart from the "Add" and "Subtract", it also supports the "Difference" mask mode. This is an important addition if you are converting text-to-masks in order to generate a circuit inside each letter of a word.
- added: two new options for start/end shapes of each circuit line. You can now select between Cross, N-Gon and the default Circle. With the N-Gon shape you can create triangles, squares, hexagons etc.
- added: size randomness for the start/end shapes

1.75  -  Nov 24, 2019

- added: support for After Effects 2020
- added: support for MacOS Catalina

1.74  -  Aug 18, 2019

Fixed: a bug where capacitors weren't generated in the "Center-out" mode and when "Put circuit parts on separate layers" was enabled
Optimized: when the number of chips, capacitors or resistors is automatically reduced by circuitFX (due to small grid sizes or very large numbers of chips/capacitors/resistors) the user is informed with a detailed message on why and what was changed
Optimized: more efficient generation of chips/capacitors/resistors in all modes
Optimized: better labeling, coloring, naming, numbering and handling of generated layers

1.70  -  Jul 10, 2019

- Added: ten (10) more circuit direction options
- Added: option to generate only the lines coming from the center-out rectangle
- Optimized: the center-out generation algorithm has been improved and is now significantly faster (+30%)
- Added: option to create a layer with the circuit lines as masks to be used with 3rd-party plug-ins (such as Element3D)
- Optimized: redesigned progress bar that is more accurate, more informative, and works both in window and in dockable panel mode
- Fixed: fixed a bug where the circuitFX window would freeze, if very small grid sizes were set

1.60  -  Apr 30, 2019

- Added: support for bezier masks. circuitFX can use masks with bezier vertices
- Optimized: more compact UI
- Optimized: more validation checks on UI text fields and sliders
- Optimized: significantly faster generation of chips, resistors and capacitors
- Optimized: better compatibility with non-english versions of After Effects
- Optimized: slightly faster circuit generation algorithm

1.52  -  Mar 20, 2019

Fixed: some licensing issues
Optimized: faster circuit generating algorithm

1.50  -  Apr 13, 2018

Optimized: significantly faster generation of circuits (by invoking a temporary composition) in CC2017 and newer versions.
Fixed: a couple of issues in the UI
Added: "Cluster" option

1.40  -  Oct 4, 2017

Added: size of the grid dots of the guide layer, is now always the same, no matter the size of the grid or the size of the comp. Also, an effect
control slider has been added to further adjust the size if needed

Added: new generation direction and strength options

Fixed: pasting masks on the guide layer now positions them correctly, rather than putting them on the top left corner (0,0)

Optimized: the "Avoid crossing of circuit lines" option is now checked by default on tool startup

Optimized: circles size, circles stroke width, lines width as well as chips, capacitors and resistors initial size in now relative to the
size of the grid

Optimized: optimization of the circuit generation algorithm with noticeable speed improvements on all modes

1.31  -  May 17, 2017

Fixed: “Using Masks” mode now properly works even after you close and re-open a project
Optimized: faster creation of grid guide layer

1.3  -  Apr 30, 2017

Added: new circuit generation mode using masks
Added: ability to set min and max number of line vertices for each circuit line
Added: After Effects Info Panel now shows detailed info of the circuit generation process in real-time

Fixed: code optimizations - overall faster circuit generation
Fixed: rounding of line corners and trimming, now works properly

1.02  -  Mar 2, 2017

- added option to prevent circuit lines from crossing
- you can now adjust the outer as well as the inner color of the capacitors

1.0  -  Feb 2, 2017

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