Aura
  • SystemSystem

    imageAura

    A procedural plug-in for After Effects that creates elegant geometric shapes in 3D space. 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.

    https://aescripts.com/aura/


  • Jason WatsonJason Watson
    Great tool and super easy to use. Purchased and used it on a project same day with great results. 

    As a suggestion for future updates, if possible it'd be great to see a seamless loop function in the Noise settings. 

    Thanks!
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Jason Watson said:
    Great tool and super easy to use. Purchased and used it on a project same day with great results. 

    As a suggestion for future updates, if possible it'd be great to see a seamless loop function in the Noise settings. 

    Thanks!
    Hi Jason, 

    Thanks for the feedback. Will add seamless noise looping to the feature requests. Thanks!

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    Rowbyte Support

  • Stickerfied IncStickerfied Inc
    Amazing plug-in. Very intuitive and lightweight. My only issue, and it's probably me, is the outermost line or the line nearest the camera/frame disappears abruptly. It does this to me no matter what mode (point, 3d, mask) I'm in. Is there a setting I'm missing or is this an after efects thing?

    Thank you!
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Stickerfied Inc said:
    Amazing plug-in. Very intuitive and lightweight. My only issue, and it's probably me, is the outermost line or the line nearest the camera/frame disappears abruptly. It does this to me no matter what mode (point, 3d, mask) I'm in. Is there a setting I'm missing or is this an after efects thing?

    Thank you!
    Did you try setting the Fade Out parameter? Also, Aura doesn't yet have Camera Near Fade settings, so will add it to the feature requests. 
    If you're willing you can send us a project file with the issue and we'd be happy to look into it.

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    Rowbyte Support
  • phillip harbathphillip harbath
    Is there any additive/screen blending where colors/elements overlap?  Have not found anything yet.

    thanks
    Phil
  • Trish MeyerTrish Meyer
    Fun plugin. Feature request: Would be good to default to using "Mask 1" when the Mask popup is selected rather than Mask "None".  Would also be nice if the Mask settings would twirl open too. 
  • Trish MeyerTrish Meyer
    Lifespan behaves quite differently from Radio Waves plugin (which is a simple "how many seconds does a wave last"). Aura makes the lines more frequent as well as last longer. So with Lifespan at 10, you get 10 waves for 10 seconds. At value of 20, I seem to get 20 waves for 20 seconds, etc.. Please allow the option for Lifespan to only affect # of seconds a wave is alive, and not add more lines. I can use Frequency for more lines. Thanks!
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    phillip harbath said:
    Is there any additive/screen blending where colors/elements overlap?  Have not found anything yet.

    thanks
    Phil
    Blending modes are currently not supported. Will add it to the feature requests.
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Trish Meyer said:
    Fun plugin. Feature request: Would be good to default to using "Mask 1" when the Mask popup is selected rather than Mask "None".  Would also be nice if the Mask settings would twirl open too. 
    Thanks for your suggestion. Will look into implementing said behavior.
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Trish Meyer said:
    Lifespan behaves quite differently from Radio Waves plugin (which is a simple "how many seconds does a wave last"). Aura makes the lines more frequent as well as last longer. So with Lifespan at 10, you get 10 waves for 10 seconds. At value of 20, I seem to get 20 waves for 20 seconds, etc.. Please allow the option for Lifespan to only affect # of seconds a wave is alive, and not add more lines. I can use Frequency for more lines. Thanks!
    Not sure if that is the how the plug-in behaves, unless I'm misunderstanding you. Lifespan should only control the duration of the wave. If Frequency is set to '1.0' that means a new wave is generated every second, so if each wave has a lifespan of 20 seconds, then at the end of 20sec, there will be 20 waves generated. If you only want 10 waves, you should lower the frequency to 0.5. so that a wave is generated every alternative second. Hope that makes sense.
  • phillip harbathphillip harbath
    1.) what are your thoughts on a bit of randomness to certain parameters,  you did not include them, and you probably have your reasons, just wonder?

    2.)  would it possible in the future to use the center of the layer as cog for the "mask" shape rather the cog of the "mask" shape.  That way it would at a big of "wonkiness" to the spin.

    thanks for answering my other post:)
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    phillip harbath said:
    1.) what are your thoughts on a bit of randomness to certain parameters,  you did not include them, and you probably have your reasons, just wonder?

    2.)  would it possible in the future to use the center of the layer as cog for the "mask" shape rather the cog of the "mask" shape.  That way it would at a big of "wonkiness" to the spin.

    thanks for answering my other post:)
    Hi Phillip,

    1. Adding randomness to some params is indeed a nice idea. Will consider it for future versions. 
    2. Center of the layer as anchor point - This is good too, but having a general offset (relative to the wave center) for the mask shape would be more intuitive. Will add it to the feature requests.

    Thanks for your suggestions, keep 'em coming!

  • Tim K KTim K K
    Any chance you would support CS6 in the near future, assuming it's possible?
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Tim K K said:
    Any chance you would support CS6 in the near future, assuming it's possible?
    Some features like Motion Paths require new APIs which are not available in CS6. But we got multiple requests for CS6 support so we might consider supporting it sans those features.

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    Rowbyte Support
  • Pat ShannahanPat Shannahan
    Cool plugin. Great work as always. 

    One of the things I love about Plexus is the ability to export out a vector to Ai. Is it possible to include something like that here? 
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Pat Shannahan said:
    Cool plugin. Great work as always. 

    One of the things I love about Plexus is the ability to export out a vector to Ai. Is it possible to include something like that here? 
    Thanks for the suggestion. Will add it to the feature requests. 
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    Rowbyte Support
  • Duane DieboltDuane Diebolt
    I see someone asked about exporting out as a AI vector. Is it possible to export these patterns to photoshop with transparency? Thank you for this lovely plugin btw <3
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Duane Diebolt said:
    I see someone asked about exporting out as a AI vector. Is it possible to export these patterns to photoshop with transparency? Thank you for this lovely plugin btw <3
    You can render out a PSD sequence or if you just want a still, you can use CompScreenshot.
  • rob cheneryrob chenery
    Hello, Love the plugin and have already made some lovely shapes in Turbulent Noise. Is there any tutorial available for custom shapes using masks?
    I have a short piece of text I want to test out and can't work out what to do next or where the built in feature is. I can easily see the 'Radiowave type > Polygon then the drop down which says > mask. Then my test hexagon shape disappears when I click that - can you point me in the right direction please? Thanks, Rob
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    rob chenery said:
    Hello, Love the plugin and have already made some lovely shapes in Turbulent Noise. Is there any tutorial available for custom shapes using masks?
    I have a short piece of text I want to test out and can't work out what to do next or where the built in feature is. I can easily see the 'Radiowave type > Polygon then the drop down which says > mask. Then my test hexagon shape disappears when I click that - can you point me in the right direction please? Thanks, Rob
    Hi Rob,

    You need to select the Mask from the pop-up menu to use it as a custom shape. Please refer to this tutorial for more info.

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    Rowbyte Support
  • rob cheneryrob chenery
    Update - I've worked out the simple After Effects hexagon mask but if I break up a three letter word as a test into vector shapes. How does the mask work then? Would be helpful to have a tutorial here as well :)
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    rob chenery said:
    Update - I've worked out the simple After Effects hexagon mask but if I break up a three letter word as a test into vector shapes. How does the mask work then? Would be helpful to have a tutorial here as well :)
    Make sure to select the checkbox "All Paths" when you select the Mask mode.

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    Rowbyte Support
  • rob cheneryrob chenery
    Thanks Rowbyte, 

    I managed to do the rectangle one easily last night but it's creating a mask based on type like the attachment. I've created a word mask but it sits above the solid layer and not on it so the aura appears within it which is not the effect I'm after. I'd like aura to follow the shapes of each letter but feel I am missing something here. 

    Test AE file here for reference. 
    aex.jpg
    898 x 668 - 124K
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    rob chenery said:
    Thanks Rowbyte, 

    I managed to do the rectangle one easily last night but it's creating a mask based on type like the attachment. I've created a word mask but it sits above the solid layer and not on it so the aura appears within it which is not the effect I'm after. I'd like aura to follow the shapes of each letter but feel I am missing something here. 

    Test AE file here for reference. 
    If you want the waves to follow a path, then you should look into Motion Paths. You can convert any mask into a Motion Path in Ae and use that Motion Path in Aura to make waves go along that path. Watch this tutorial 
  • rob cheneryrob chenery
    Thanks, yes I saw this tutorial already and it is very useful. But is that how you created for example the letter 'a' or letter 'x' in the jpeg example I attached above? The aura repeat line pattern is within the shape of those letters rather than following a motion path. This is the effect I am trying to test out.
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    rob chenery said:
    Thanks, yes I saw this tutorial already and it is very useful. But is that how you created for example the letter 'a' or letter 'x' in the jpeg example I attached above? The aura repeat line pattern is within the shape of those letters rather than following a motion path. This is the effect I am trying to test out.
    You need to convert text layer to masks and the copy the masks to the 'Aura' layer. Then select 'All Paths' checkbox option in Aura.

    Rowbyte Support
  • rob cheneryrob chenery
    That worked! Thank you for bearing with me :)
  • Pat ShannahanPat Shannahan
    Rowbyte Inc said:
    Pat Shannahan said:
    Cool plugin. Great work as always. 

    One of the things I love about Plexus is the ability to export out a vector to Ai. Is it possible to include something like that here? 
    Thanks for the suggestion. Will add it to the feature requests. 
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    Rowbyte Support
    Thanks for adding the SVG export!!! Much appreciated!
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Pat Shannahan said:
    Rowbyte Inc said:
    Pat Shannahan said:
    Cool plugin. Great work as always. 

    One of the things I love about Plexus is the ability to export out a vector to Ai. Is it possible to include something like that here? 
    Thanks for the suggestion. Will add it to the feature requests. 
    --
    Rowbyte Support
    Thanks for adding the SVG export!!! Much appreciated!
    You're welcome!

    Rowbyte Support
  • Lorenzo DelmatiLorenzo Delmati

    thanks for this great plug in,
    however, I have a problem when I decrease the frequency
    it behaves in a strange way, it does not have a soft decrease
    but it drops off suddenly and then starts again. even when
    I move the point location even if I use a 3d layer as an emitter
    it moves before when the keyframes are positioned
    How can I solve it?
     thanks
  • Harold DurnezHarold Durnez
    How would you make the aura behave in reverse?
    i.e. The radio waves by default pulse outward, but how could you then animate it to animate back in ward?

  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Harold Durnez said:
    How would you make the aura behave in reverse?
    i.e. The radio waves by default pulse outward, but how could you then animate it to animate back in ward?

    You can increase the "Start Size" and set the "End Size" to zero. Then, set the "Velocity" to a negative value. Negative values make the waves move in the opposite direction. For reference,

  • Andrew OlleyAndrew Olley
    Hi
    looks like a great plugin. I have an issue, when using a 3d layer emitter that's parented to another null (ie no motion path on the actual emitter), I get inconsistent sizes of waves emitted. even though the start and end size is the same.  Is that a known issue? Thanks


  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Andrew Olley said:
    Hi
    looks like a great plugin. I have an issue, when using a 3d layer emitter that's parented to another null (ie no motion path on the actual emitter), I get inconsistent sizes of waves emitted. even though the start and end size is the same.  Is that a known issue? Thanks


    Does the scale of the layer change? Make sure the scale is consistent for the emitter. If you're still having issues, please send us a project file using our contact page below.


  • Rohan LorenzRohan Lorenz
    Hi!

    Definitely wanna try this plugin and it looks amazing, but the installer doesn't allow changes in File Location and keeps stating my After Effects file doesn't exist!


  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Rohan Lorenz said:
    Hi!

    Definitely wanna try this plugin and it looks amazing, but the installer doesn't allow changes in File Location and keeps stating my After Effects file doesn't exist!


    Please contact us using the link below and we can send you the plug-in binaries directly to perform a manual installation.


  • bob vilabob vila
    Have you guys considered enabling a freeze to emissions? To essentially make it in a frozen shape that would be able to be deformed/moved around on?

    Thanks
  • Jerome MoralesJerome Morales
    Hello, when i try to download the trial, I get the 1.2.4 not the current 1.2.5? I wanna test it on my apple silicon macbook pro.
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Jerome Morales said:
    Hello, when i try to download the trial, I get the 1.2.4 not the current 1.2.5? I wanna test it on my apple silicon macbook pro.
    You can download from here instead
  • Nuria aizpuruNuria aizpuru
    Hi! when I try to animate the orientation it freezes. Without keyframes the orientation can be modify, but with the first keyframe ir freezes... is there a fix for this? 
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Nuria aizpuru said:
    Hi! when I try to animate the orientation it freezes. Without keyframes the orientation can be modify, but with the first keyframe ir freezes... is there a fix for this? 
    That is expected behavior. The wave parameters are set at birth, so when you keyframe orientation, only the waves generated at that time have that orientation, the next frame will have different orientation. Without keyframes all waves will have the same orientation set when they're generated.

  • Peter LundPeter Lund
    Hi, when is Aura going to be ported to After Effects 23.2.1? 
    Or is Aura being discontinued? 
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Peter Lund said:
    Hi, when is Aura going to be ported to After Effects 23.2.1? 
    Or is Aura being discontinued? 
    Hi,

    Aura works with AE 23. If you're having issues, let us know.

  • Viliam SnircViliam Snirc
    Hi, when animating  line shapes using triangle the corners as they grow bigger appear to have round caps. Is there a way to change the line cap from round to butt cup? Many thanks!
  • Christopher DudleyChristopher Dudley
    Is it expected behavior for animations to not work? Every parameter I've tried to keyframe doesn't smoothly interpolate between keyframes for each subsequent new wave -- there is an abrupt cutover to the new value once the keyframe is hit. 
  • Lloyd AlvarezLloyd Alvarez
    Christopher Dudley said:
    Is it expected behavior for animations to not work? Every parameter I've tried to keyframe doesn't smoothly interpolate between keyframes for each subsequent new wave -- there is an abrupt cutover to the new value once the keyframe is hit. 
    If you have a technical or customer support issue, please open a support ticket instead.
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Christopher Dudley said:
    Is it expected behavior for animations to not work? Every parameter I've tried to keyframe doesn't smoothly interpolate between keyframes for each subsequent new wave -- there is an abrupt cutover to the new value once the keyframe is hit. 
    What parameter are you trying to animate? Some parameters cannot be interpolated (like say Num of Poly Sides). Also this is a temporal plug-in so the values take a while to propagate among the waves. If you need more help either open a support ticket or use the contact form below and send the project file.

    Thanks.


  • Peter LundPeter Lund
    Hey, I am working on AE 24.2.1 and it seems that the plug in is not working any more. 
    Any updates for this? 
  • Rowbyte IncRowbyte Inc
    Peter Lund said:
    Hey, I am working on AE 24.2.1 and it seems that the plug in is not working any more. 
    Any updates for this? 
    Aura works in AE 24. If you're having issues contact us with a screenshot or any project files using the link below.


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