Reversing Specific Animation

[mouj]

Not quite sure but couldn't you use a Block Controller for that ? Never used it myself but i remember of a (timelapse) video showing how to use Master Block Controller over an animation to be able to manipulate the animation as a sort of a "clip" that you could then reverse, extend and so on...

mouj

[googlo]

it can get buggy but if you want to actually reverse a particle system you can do so by making a copy of it via a mesh object and then applying a point cache modifier ontop of the mesher object and setting the recording options in reverse and then using the point cache modifier to run the mesher object.

[Conny]

One way is to use the Ping-Pong feature in the "Time" rollout
in the material editor.

Create an new scene with a Camera and a Plane object.
Set the time configuration to twice as the original length.

Then make a material with your original animation in the
diffuse slot, go to the time rollout and set it to ping pong.
Set Self illumination to 100% and apply to the plane object.

Now render the second half of the animation, using the
camera and the plane object as a cinema.

Conny

[gopherCG]

Block controller? That sound interesting, especially the clip thing, which should make complex animation easier to move around. I'll try that, if I can find where it is. thanks.

The cache mod seems good, except definitely a last resort.

I'll try all these. Maybe I could do the video way... have the complex anims go forward and reverse the simpler anims, render and reverse the video.

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