About Rowbyte Plexus

Rowbyte Plexus is a particle‑engine plug‑in for After Effects that enables procedural creation, manipulation and visualisation of data. It renders particles and can form relationships between them using lines and triangles. The Object Panel provides a tree‑style layout for Geometry, Effector and Render objects, and can be docked anywhere in the After Effects UI. Features include Motion Blur with Depth of Field, a Sound Effector that drives vertex attributes from an audio layer, a Slicer Object for cutting meshes, volumetric Beams without overlapping joints, and Depth Map Culling for compositing. Plexus 3 leverages After Effects’ multi‑threaded architecture (introduced in version 13.5) with support for persistent caching and automatic instance refresh. It works in nested compositions, respects native cameras and lights, and renders all objects in a shared 3D space.

Designed for motion‑graphics artists, Plexus supports a wide range of After Effects releases from CS6 through the 2025 version, on both Windows and macOS, including Apple Silicon.

Features

• Procedural particle engine that renders particles and builds relationships between them using lines and triangles
• Object-based, tree-style Object Panel for organizing Geometry, Effector and Render Objects and Groups, dockable anywhere in After Effects
• Motion Blur alongside Depth of Field, using comp settings or custom camera shutter values
• Sound Effector that samples a waveform from an AE sound layer and applies it to vertex position, scale or color, with echo over time
• Slicer Object that slices through a mesh for visualizations, working best with OBJ meshes
• Seamless volumetric Beams without overlapping joints, plus Depth Map Culling to occlude pixels using an exported depth map
• Unified rendering that gives all objects a common 3D space so points, lines and polys intersect in z-space

Best for

Motion‑graphics artists who need procedural, data‑driven visuals such as connected particles, lines and triangles within After Effects.