Reverse particle direction?

promytius · Post by **promytius** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:55 pm

My animation has a plane flying left to right - the particle folder with clouds goes right to left.
How do I reverse the cloud direction? The plane direction cannot be altered, it must go left to right.
Is it possible to reverse the particle direction?
Thanks.

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:56 pm

The particle layer can be mirrored the same way as any other layer.

promytius · Post by **promytius** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:24 pm

Thanks; it's not easy working with mash potato heads like me; imagine how it is when I work alone!

promytius · Post by **promytius** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:31 pm

mirroring eh; haven't found it so far; must be there somewhere... saw something about setting the layer defaults to that, but that would change all the layers. I hate being so new and so stupid, especially at my age.
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promytius · Post by **promytius** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:34 pm

There is the tiniest little (and may I say somewhat inappropriate) icon below the gray bar labeled "LAYERS" - it's an ellipsis icon (...) which of COURSE stands for Layer Settings, instead of "dialog left out"!
My my.
Thanks, promytius!

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:50 pm

If you select the layer translate tool, and at the top of the screen just below the drop down menus, you'll find two icons to flip a layer. One to flip horizontal and one to flip vertical. Of course once you flip the layer, you'll need to use the layer translate tool to re-position the layer to the other side of the screen.

flip by jonbo64, on Flickr

promytius · Post by **promytius** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:14 am

johnbo, thanks! There's so much to this program! I'll try to remember that next time I open the program.
And including the image was very nice of you.

Reverse particle direction?

Reverse particle direction?

AH-HA

thanks