When objects impact the ground, such as bullets or footsteps, one often expects to see an effect such as a puff of dust (dust hit) or a burst of debris. This four part tutorial demonstrates how to create dust hits and debris from bullets hitting the ground, fired by an animated jet fighter composited into a live action background. In chapter one, we create a dust hit generator that allows us to easily create a library of sequences to map onto particle sprites. The generator incorporates volume emission, omni emission, volume axis fields, turbulence, multiStreak and sprite particles, expressions and hardware rendering.

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