Maad

I'm not sure I'll be able to explain everything clearly, but I'll try. I think you already know that After Effects has a render mode used in most projects — Classic 3D. It supports creating and working with both 2D and 3D layers. There are also plugins that support full-fledged 3D work and use this same render type (they have a cube icon right before the plugin name), such as the CC Particle Systems II plugin. In other words, with all this functionality, we can work with depth (the Z coordinate). I’ll use the Aurora plugin from ProductionCrate as a clear example. If we apply this plugin to a layer and create a camera, we can see that we’re already fully able to navigate using the camera and view the entire Aurora space (see the video). Your plugin already has similar settings for “camera orientation” in space (see the video as well). I also understand that all of this is very difficult to implement, since it’s essentially a full-fledged 3D simulation of volumetrics. A similar project in this vein is Fractal Noise 3D. I hope I was able to help you in some way, and I wholeheartedly believe in this project.