[Jeff Zimmerman]

Using the shatter effect i set the repetitions very high to make the pieces falling off very small. Set the direction to 180 strength to .25 so the letters fall apart slowly, gravity high so the pieces fall downward and extrusion low so they dont seem to fall outward before going downward. I used a duplicate copy of the text with a gradient vertically from white to black and animated the threshold value hoping to make the shatter slowing advance downward. The problem is i cant seem to get this to work. The entire text is shattering at once rather than looking like its falling apart from top to bottom. Im not sure if i am using a wrong setting or just over looking something.. suggestions?