Centered wave warp

[00d7]

Hi,

I'm animating the wave length of a wave warp but would like the animation to be centered so that additional waves comes from both sides. Right now the wave is left aligned and all the additional waves come in from the right.

I've tried to have two lines to animate and to flip one horizontally but the wave warp effect seemt to disregard the orientation of the line.

[imeilfx · Accepted solution]

To change direction of wave you have to change Direction value in Wave Warp effect settings

As for making wave warp to generate waves from left and right to the center you have several choices. Three of them are:
a) duplicate your layer and change direction of Waves on second layer. Then move or mask parts that you dont need to see (depends of what you animating)
b) use Mirror effetc on top of Wave Warp
c) put Wave Warp on layer, pre comp that layer, duplicate, rotate that duplicated layer. After that move or mask depend on what you ar actually warping.

[00d7]

Thank you for your answer!

I tried direction and mirror effect but neither worked as I'm animating the width.

The pre comp worked but the two ends don't line up unfortunatly.

[P.M.B]

Maybe try the ripple effect.