Now, inside of the Effects Interface, you can make adjustments to Group 1’s Particle Replicator, to take your 6 buildings replicate as many as you want be in your frame. When you’re happy with what you have, click OK, and head back to After Effects. You can have up to five groups, and to be honest, I’m not sure how many buildings I’d be able to put into each one but it would be a lot, and the more powerful your CPU, the more buildings you’ll be able to have.Īfter you have double clicked on six different buildings, you can now position the buildings wherever you want them to be be in 3D space, right in the Preview Window. For me to create a good group of buildings, I’m going to choose 6 daytime buildings, and, by double clicking on them, place them into Group 1. Once you’ve decided whether you want to your scene to be a day or night scene, now you can start placing buildings where you want them to go. Graphic Buildings (buildings with no textures – there’s 30 of them, Metropolitan (Day and Night modeled buildings – there are $156 of them), and Metropolitan – No Antennas (Pretty much as described: 115 building models with no antennas).Īt any time you can double click on one of the modes to call it up into the scene, and then navigate around it using the mouse, mouse wheel, and the OPT/ALT keys to pan and zoom in and out.
Simply enter your Video Copilot (VC) account information, and the bundle will license itself), you’ll now see in the Model Browser the Metropolitan pack, and three sub-categories. Once installed, and licensed (this can all be done via the internet inside of the Element 3D interface, with no need to enter licensing information. It’s a pack of building models, high resolution textures and 10 AE preset projects to get you rolling in the right direction. What’s important to keep in mind is that Metropolitan is not another plugin. Let’s get in and show you how you’re going to add this great expansion pack to your shiny new E3D plug-in.
In this review, I want to talk about one of the expansion packs for Element 3D (E3D), and that is “Metropolitan,” which is a city building extension for E3D. A while back I posted my multi-part review of Video Copilot’s Element 3D (click here for part 1, part 2 and part 3), and, if you didn’t read it, you now probably know that it’s easily the absolute best 3D plugin for Adobe’s After Effects on the market today.