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Create panel > Geometry > Particle Systems > Object Type rollout > Click PF
Source. > Setup rollout > Click Particle View (or press 6). > Right-click in event
display.
The event display right-click menu provides handy access to a number of
contextual commands. The contents of the menu, as well as the results of its
commands, depend in some cases on where you click, in other cases on what's
highlighted, and in still other cases, on both.
In the following descriptions, “item” means an action or event, or, in some
cases, a wire.
Interface
Insert Displays a submenu of all actions, and when you choose a new action,
inserts it where you originally right-clicked. Available only when you right-click
over an event or action.
If you right-click over an action, and then insert an action, the inserted action
replaces the old one. If you right-click above or below an action (no tooltip
appears), the new action is added to the event at that location. If you right-click
over an event, the action is inserted at the first available position.
Append Displays a submenu of all actions, and when you choose a new action,
inserts it at the end of the event. Available only when you right-click over an
event or action.
Turn On Turns on the event or action under the mouse cursor. Available only
when the item under the mouse cursor is turned on.
To affect an event, the mouse cursor must be over its title bar.
Turning on a highlighted item affects all highlighted items.
Turn Off Turns off the event or action under the mouse cursor. Available only
when the item under the mouse cursor is turned off.
To affect an event, the mouse cursor must be over its title bar.
Turning off a highlighted item affects all highlighted items.
Make Unique Converts an instanced action to a copy that's unique to its
event. Available only when the mouse cursor is over an instanced action.
If you right-click over a highlighted, instanced action, Make Unique affects
all such actions.
Wire Wires one or more highlighted tests to a highlighted event, or one or
more highlighted global events to a highlighted birth event. Available only
when one or more tests and a single event are highlighted, or when one or
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