If shatter threshold is set to 0 no pieces in the force sphere shatter.
After effects shatter pieces on floor.
If it is set to 1 only the pieces in the force sphere corresponding to white or nearly white areas on the gradient layer shatter.
Hello i m sorry this is kinda messy but i hope it helps a bit.
A key to making shatter work the way you want is to use a gradient layer or a separate layer that tells the shattter effect how to behave this will make more sense later on you can make your gradient layer in photoshop illustrator or another graphic program then import the file into after effects.
Which looks odd and not what i thought of and somehow i did find a way to keep it together just until the collision.
You can create a lot of things with it and it is very useful.
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Take the shatter effect as an example.
This tutorial is going to help you learn to use the shatter effect in after effects.
Some of the effects in ae s library are quite useful.
If it is set to 50 all the pieces in the force sphere corresponding to white to 50 gray areas on the gradient layer shatter.
Some effects in ae have been around so long that we tend to overlook them.
On first impressions the shatter effect may seem kind of cheesy.
Plugin play shares some advanced shatter techniques for making the standard after effects shatter stand out.
You can also make the layer in after effects itself which it what we will do.
This is an easy tutorial even beginners can follow.