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Simple horizontal animation
Jerrys11 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Aug 09, 2017 17:43 Messages: 2 Offline
[Post New] Oct 16, 2017 17:32
I'm intersted to do a simple background animation, moving small, green, horizontal lines slowly across a white background. A month ago or so, I stumbled across an existing feature of PD14 that animated small particles slowly across the screen. I created something close to what I want and now cannot find that feature again for the life of me!

Can someone suggest how to do the former or find the latter? Much appreciated.

Frustrated in Chicago.
ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline
[Post New] Oct 17, 2017 03:26
Hi Jerry -

Maybe you used Particle Designer. That would be the most obvious way of doing it, I think.

I just made a couple, fairly quickly, that might be the kind of thing you're after.

https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176469995 and https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176469996

Everything about those particle templates can be modified or removed (including the silly background image).

Cheers - Tony
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Jerrys11 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Aug 09, 2017 17:43 Messages: 2 Offline
[Post New] Oct 17, 2017 07:06
What you created is what I had in mind, thanks. Did you use Particle Designer for those? Is there a particular Template to download for this? How otherwise to reach you to discuss further?

Jerry





Quote Hi Jerry -

Maybe you used Particle Designer. That would be the most obvious way of doing it, I think.

I just made a couple, fairly quickly, that might be the kind of thing you're after.

https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176469995 and https://directorzone.cyberlink.com/detail/176469996

Everything about those particle templates can be modified or removed (including the silly background image).

Cheers - Tony
ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline
[Post New] Oct 17, 2017 07:26
Jerry -

I'm not a particle maker's bootlace. All I did was take PDR 14's particle template called "Rain" amd modify it.


  1. Drop Rain in the timeline > Modify

  2. Ditch particle 2, 3 & 4, leaving only 1

  3. Made some little green lines in Paint.NET (attached)

  4. Add/Delete Particles - deleted the Rain_4 particle and added the green lines I made in 3.

  5. Turned the thing on its side

  6. Switched Particle Style to "Scale"

  7. Changed size, life & speed parameters


That's about it.

Cheers - Tony
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