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From: Mark Thompson <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Reversing Sparks(tm)
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>    Related to my other "reversing" question:  Is there any way to make the
>particle plugin "Sparks"(tm) do its thing in reverse?
>
>    IOW, I want particles streaming >into< something, rather than out of
>something.

First of all, you can define your emitter to be spread out over an area
and make your target a single point. This will not reverse particle dynamics,
but it does accomplish making the particles stream into something.

Also, besides the render backwards trick everyone has mentioned, I once
needed to reverse a scene (backwards rendering was not allowed for this
application) and Jon Tindall created a short little code fragment for me
that did exactly that. If you get his permission, I can post it...but it
only runs on the Amiga.
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  *         Fusion Films, Inc.              [e-mail]          *
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