Yes, it should work to put an animated vector switch layer inside of a particle layer. It worked for me, anyway. :) Have you installed 7.1 which fixes the switch layer bug? You may be referring to the blinking at the beginning or end of a lifetime. The petal will appear or disappear after a certain...

I have no idea why putting the switch layer full of pngs in the particle layer strobes the petals like that. :) Putting a switch layer full of vector layers in the same particle layer worked just fine. I quickly traced your petal animation into a vector switch layer to show how that would work. I a...

Sorry, can't open the file because it's AS7 - I only have 6. The PNG drawings look fine, perfect. I recommend you don't leave that much empty space around them - crop them to 50 x 50px, this takes some workload off AS. Too bad U can't open it :( Thanx, I'll do that ^^ about the petals, I think I'll...

I don't have a rar extractor so I didn't look at your file, but it sounds like you may have drawn the petal changing position in addition to rotating when you were in photoshop. To reuse it, you want the petal changing shape to look like it's rotating in one spot. You should be able to watch the an...

Of course a switch layer can be used inside a particle layer. I recommend to watch some video footage for reference, then do some test animation in AS with vectors (it would be really only an outline of a petal, moving points to create the illusion of rotation). then do the particle test, and THEN ...

anyone? please help me ^^

Here's a trick to create fairly realistic water ripples. The key is a LOT of bones. The more the better. You can use fewer bones of course. http://www.lowrestv.com/images/files/water-ripples.anme http://www.lowrestv.com/images/files/water-ripples.mov I am including a menu script for creating bone c...

If you want a bunch of petals to move across the screen, you can use particles for that. But if you want them to change speed and direction half way through, like the sudden gust of wind in your example, you may have to animate that manually. But it's pretty simple. Once you have animated one petal...

I highly recommend the technique slowtiger described. Simply rotating a 3D object won't get you the right result because the petals will look rigid. What will make it convincing is to show how the petals gently curve in the wind. Frame by frame or point animation will work perfectly for that. Plus ...

Don't do it with a picture then? well, I used to make animation with pre made pic from photoshop, and I'm not very familiar with AS drawing tools and not sure if I can achieve the look that I want by using AS drawing tools. But thank U so much 4 the advices, I really appreciate it :D I'll figure so...

First you animate some flowers rotating by themselves. Then you put these into a particle layer as seeds and adjust the particle settings to your taste. Thanx 4 the advice ^^ I want to achieve the kinda 3D look, so I tried to rotate the petal picture by x and y axis(I use png format picture), but t...

Hi, I'm a newbie

I need Ur help, I want to achieve this flower petals effect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuKgk3ojSvk (the effect is at the very beginning)

Do U guys have any idea how to achieve that with AS? I'm using AS7 btw ^^

Any feedback would be great!