after effects how to create rectangle particle pixel sorter

You can set the grid up in the preferences. If you are filling a rectangle then whole pixel values are going to work for the vertex placement.ĪE can snap to grid and snap to guides. You can do this by observing the info panel while dragging things around while the comp window is zoomed in to 800 or 1600%. To get the vertex position and the generated stroke to exactly line up the coordinates of the vertex will need to be 30.5, 30.5 and 30.5, 99.5. If your vertex is exactly on 30, 30 and the second is at 30, 100 and you stroke is 1 pixel wide and black then the stroke will be sub pixel interpreted and displayed as a gray line 2 pixels wide covering the area of 29 - 30, 29 - 30 and 29 - 30, 100 - 101. I can't help thinking that if they'd just make the Guidelines in After Effects work as Guidelines all these of things would be non-issues. I'm trying to ascertain if (and to what extent) pixel perfect placement is possible in After Effects.

Whether or not it's necessary ALL of the time is another discussion. Importing Illustrator and Photoshop files doesn't seem to work either, as neither of them create paths that are then editable in After Effects, despite both creating good/great pixel perfect originals.Īs to your other comment about 'pixel perfect is only a viable or necessary option in video production if the graphic you are creating does not move or comes to rest.' I can think of some very good examples of other examples of great need/desire for pixel perfection in design. It only solves the edit side of the problem. However it does not solve the problem of getting pixel perfect placement AND being able to edit. I'm aware of the Alt/Option trick from google searching for a way to convert a Shape to a Path. You can (and probably would like to) argue against the need for pixel perfect placement. Hence the desire for perfect pixel placement. As stated in a few other places, I'm working on a User Interface for iPads.

After effects how to create rectangle particle pixel sorter