Hi I am trying a new approach to an animation and would like to do a sort of film noir type scene with fog or maybe rain. I have the fog particle in place but it doesnt start at the beginning of my scene but appears quiet far into it. Can anyone point me in the right direction to either edit the start of my fog particle or a good tutorial on how to adjust my particles so it starts at the beginning of my scene. I may want to use rain in the future and i have tried that too and that has the same problem. 

Many thanks

Woody

There are two types of fog. Particle and the one in the visual settings. The particle one needs time to generate the particles. The best solution for that is to have the fog start at the beginning of the scene, but do not have anything else happen until the fog is built-up. It may take a couple seconds.

thanks Rampa

But if i have already completed loads of animation (lights characters etc) is their an easy way to grab every element i have created so far and move them all along the timeline to a more suitable position at the same time so i dont miss anything and then cut the bit at the begging off when i do post production. Im using Sony Vegas to add a few final bits like footsteps, background music etc 

Thanks for the assist

There is an insert frames tool. At frame 1 insert a couple seconds worth of frames. Hope that works!:)

This reminds me of a possible feature request. In some 3D programs you can have the timeline start at a negative frame number. That way you have a lead-in and can still have frame 1 be your first rendered frame. It would be useful for physics as well.

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