Move all frames within a layer together

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I'm animating a waterfall, and have animated one section of water cascading down. What I want to do is duplicate that layer (which also duplicates the animations and frames associated with it) and then move it further along the waterfall - so I have two cascading water animations.

I want to do that with three or four different animations, duplicating them all to create 12-16 different cascades for a single waterfall.

Using the translate layer tool only allows me to move a layer within a single frame. I can't work out how to translate all of the frames within a layer at once...

Thanks for reading, and I hope that makes sense

[jahnocli]

Not sure I understand the question, but is the answer Group Layers?

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Haha, sorry. Hmmm, let's see...

I have a layer called 'Water 1'. I animated the layer through the translate layer tool, and through use of opacity variations. I ensured the layer works on a loop, ending up at the same opacity and placement in the last frame as it is in frame 1.

I've now duplicated that layer, and am pleased to see that it also duplicated the information for the layer's animation, so that this duplicate also has a looped animation. But what I want to do is move this second layer to a different position, next to the first but not directly on top of.

Using the translate layer tool to do this only moves the layer for a single frame, even if it's just the first frame. I need a way to move all of the frames together for this layer. Hopefully it's a simple solution that I'm completely missing

[slowtiger]

Just put eaqch waterfall into a group layer and move that.

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<3

Thanks guys, you two are stars

[funksmaname]

the layer translate tool will move the entire layer even if it's not in a group - i think you're just mixing up which tool you're using