• Adobe After Effects

  a 3d globe with an arrow moving from a city to another

  Posted by Gone Fishing on July 3, 2009 at 4:20 pm

  I tried to make a 3d moving globe with an arrow moving from one city to another. it was difficult for me to make the arrow moves over the moving globe.

  David Bogie replied 16 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Brian Charles

  July 3, 2009 at 6:07 pm

  Add a new layer to the earth map and animate a stroke or shape layer along a path from point to point in 2D.

  Then either apply CC Sphere to that layer or combine it in a precomp and add the Sphere effect. I did this in 2 minutes.
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  Gone Fishing

  July 3, 2009 at 11:44 pm

  thanks you very much. do you mind if you send me the project file?
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  Jens Enqvist

  July 4, 2009 at 10:26 am

  We have a set of tools which addresses exactly this type of job.
  Cycore Effects Sphere Utilities
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  Brian Charles

  July 5, 2009 at 1:35 am

  Sorry, I threw it out and had to make another. Here it is.

  118_lineonmapfolder.zip
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  Gone Fishing

  July 5, 2009 at 11:23 pm

  thank you very much.
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  David Bogie

  July 6, 2009 at 2:42 pm

  [Jens Enqvist] “We have a set of tools which addresses exactly this type of job.
  Cycore Effects Sphere Utilities “

  Holy crap, CC sphere utilities costs US$100! Might be worth it if you plan to do this kind of mapping often.
  But…
  You can create another layer in your comp for your arrows, apply CC Sphere to it, and make it slightly larger than the globe. Syncing the two layers can get complicated but that’s why After Effects is not for kids.

  bogiesan

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