Comping Combustion particles with Shake.

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Hi all. I,m working actually in a Shake project, but I need to use 2D particles done in Combustion. My main problem is that if I comp and create the entire scene with the particle operator in Combustion, looks great (example: a BG with 2D smoke tracked, or an explosion with debri, smoke, fire, etc). But my problem comes when I try to render just the particle with the right animation and timing to comp in Shake: always looks different, with dark edges, and far from be photorealistic. I tried all kind of combinations: render with alpha, without and over a black frame and use a luma key in Shake, changing the “intense” option… but doesn’t work. How can I keep and render EXACTLY the same particle that looks so good when it’s all comp inside the Combustion’s particle operator? (the problem happens mainly with smoke particles)

Thank’s.

[softer_vb]

The darker edges sounds like the render sequence might not be premutiply, but even then i doubt that u can recreate the comp as in combustion without having to play around with the matte and maybe some glow.

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