Snowflakes in the wind

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Snowflakes in the wind

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I searched around in the various topics, but couldn’t find what seems like should be a simple answer.

I’m looking at using the wind effect to affect the drop of snowflakes (particles). I would like to see the snowflakes drop and move due to the affects of the wind randomly as the wind blows them.

I thought about applying a bone layer with the images, a bone to each image, and add the bone layer to the particles folder, but that doesn’t seem to work.

Any ideas?
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Hm - that's 2 movements, 1 of the snowflakes continually slowly falling down, another of the whole snow blown sideways in a gust of wind. First should be particles, second can be the particle layer moved sideways in a fast and short fashion.
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That’s good plan. :D That’s probably what I’ll end up doing.

I was hoping to take advantage of particles and wind in some combination, more to apply to my project, but also apply a possible new technique for this and future projects using some of the new Moho features.
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Wonderfully done! Thank you, this helps tremendously!
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Haha! that's great, Wes.
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