Apple Motion 2 Tutorials - Manual (Page 175)

Tutorial 4 Working With Particles 175
Saving the Particle Emitter to the Library
After a particle system has been adjusted to your liking, you can save it to the Library
for easy reuse.
To save the particle emitter to the Library:
1 In the Library (press Command+2), select the category in which you want to save the
customized particle emitter, for example, the Favorites category.
Note: You can also save the emitter to the Particle Emitters category.
2 Drag the Blue Lights emitter object from the Layers tab to the Favorites file stack.
The customized Blue Lights emitter is added to the Favorites category.
If you drag an emitter to an inappropriate category (for example, the Filters category),
the emitter is automatically saved to the Particle Emitters category.
Next, use the Blue Lights custom emitter as the starting point for another emitter.
To use a custom emitter from the Library:
1 Set the current frame to 32, to see the position of the letter J in “jellies.”
2 In the Layers tab, select the Particles layer.
3 In the Library tab, select the Favorites category.