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A rectangle in a shape layer. Added a "repeater" to rectangle, which created 3 repeats with no offset. I suppose each repeat gets its own layer space, with its own origin, and an anchor point. My question is why is that when I change the anchor point's coordinates, none of the repeats move to adjust for a constant position value?
I mean each repeat has its own origin and its anchor point, and a repeat's position is the position of its anchor point as measured from the origin of the previous repeat. If I'm not wrong the origin for each repeat here will exactly be at the center of the these squares. A position value of 200,100 in the "transform:repeater" would mean that the second square's anchor point (which is at its center, exactly on the origin of it), is at a distance of 200,100 from the origin of the 1st square. And the anchor point of the third is at 200,100 from the origin of the second square (which makes sense in the video). However,if I change the anchor point to say -50,0, all the anchor points (except for the first square) have shifted left by the same amount - 50. Consequently the position of these anchor points has reduced as measured from the origin of the previous repeat. What was 200,100 initially should change to 150,100 or if it doesn't change the distance between the repeats should automatically increase to account for the constant position values.
Where am I going wrong with how repeater works?
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