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htone
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noob wants to make things fall...

Post by htone »

Greetings. I'm pretty new to Anime Studio and I feel as though I'm missing something fundamental. I'm trying to create a meteor shower falling onto a city and bouncing off the buildings. I have created the meteors and positioned them above the viewing frame; but I can't figure out how to time their "release" so that they all don't fall at the same time. The "enable physics" box seems to either be on or off, so I can't use that. The users manual talks about something similar with rocks rolling down a hill, but how do you stagger them?
thanks
jonbo
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Post by jonbo »

If you are using physics for this, you have all your moving objects on their own layers and check the start asleep option for each of these layers. Then select one of these layers and go to the place in the timeline you want it to start moving. In the animation sub-menu there is a nudge physics option, choose that or you can hit ctr+shift+n to call this up. Do this for each layer at various points in the timeline.
htone
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Post by htone »

Thank you!!! I wasn't aware of start asleep. Very helpful
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