by Rowbyte·Motion Graphics
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Plexus holds a spot in Toolfarm's library and stands out for its modular, procedural approach to connecting particles with lines and triangles inside After Effects.
Rowbyte Plexus is a next-gen particle engine for After Effects that lets you create, manipulate and visualize data procedurally. It's built to bring generative art closer to a non-linear program like After Effects: alongside rendering particles, you can form relationships between them based on various parameters using lines and triangles. The workflow is modular, opening up a wide range of configurations and parameters.
Plexus 3 introduces an object-based, tree-style Object Panel for organizing Geometry, Effector and Render Objects and Groups, and it docks anywhere in After Effects. You can add Motion Blur alongside Depth of Field using comp settings or custom camera shutter values, sample audio with the Sound Effector, and slice through meshes with the Slicer Object. Seamless Beams render volumetric beams without overlapping joints, and Depth Map Culling helps composite Plexus into 3D scenes.
Plexus 3 was designed for After Effects' multi-threaded architecture introduced in 13.5, with support for Persistent Caching and automatic Instance refresh. Nested compositions can collapse transforms so Plexus reacts to native cameras and lights, and unified rendering gives all objects a common 3D space where points, lines and polys can intersect.
Rowbyte Plexus is best for motion graphics artists creating generative art and data-driven visuals in After Effects using connected particles, lines and triangles.
Rowbyte Plexus is completely free to download and use.
Rowbyte Plexus supports a broad range of After Effects releases, including After Effects 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020, plus CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC and CS6. Plexus 3 was designed for After Effects' multi-threaded architecture introduced in 13.5, which brings support for Persistent Caching and automatic refreshing of nested Instances. For the current list and any version-specific notes, check the developer's page before installing.
Rowbyte Plexus is available for both Windows and Macintosh. The changelog also notes support for Apple Silicon architecture added in an earlier release, along with sprite rendering fixes for macOS and fixes for sprite rendering on Nvidia GPUs. For system specifics tied to your After Effects version and hardware, the developer's page is the best place to confirm before you install.
Rowbyte Plexus is listed as free here in our catalog. Licensing terms can change over time, and the changelog references floating license support and floating license server compatibility updates, so the exact terms may depend on how you obtain it. For the most current licensing details and any available options, check the developer's page before downloading or committing to it in a project.
Rowbyte Plexus includes a Sound Effector Object that samples a waveform from a sound layer in After Effects and applies it to vertex position, scale or color. It can also echo the sampled waveform so the sound is sampled over time. This sits alongside the Transform Effector, which in a recent update can use an AE Layer to drive the transforms, giving you more ways to animate particles from sources in your project.
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