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  • how do I delay effects?

    Posted by Dan Weiss on May 29, 2012 at 3:07 am

    Trying to get effects to deploy in the center of a layer rather than the beginning all the time. Is this some kind of weird bug or am I doing something wrong? Pixel Polly or shatter. I can’t them to delay start?

    Dan Weiss replied 14 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • John Cuevas

    May 29, 2012 at 4:21 am

    I don’t know about Pixel Polly, but shatter can absolutely be delayed. Shatter is created when the force hits the layer and in the “force/wireframe” view you can see it’s already interacting with the layer. Just twirl down “Force” and move it so it’s not smashing into the layer, key frame it’s position and it will explode the layer whenever you want.

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  • Dan Weiss

    May 29, 2012 at 7:38 pm

    Ok, thanks. It’s odd that some of the effects can not be manipulated in this way. I guess I will have to change to shatter or figure out a way around it, as Edison suggests. 🙂 Thanks for your help.

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