• Apple Motion

  shapes and z space in motion 3

  Posted by Dan Franzen on July 3, 2012 at 2:26 pm

  I am finding this hard to explain so let me know if I need to clarify anything.

  I am trying to create a path that starts going from left to right then goes into Z space and then back forward to the original plane. From a top view it would look something like this __/__ . I started making a straight line, going to the top view and adding in points, but I cannot change those point locations in Z space. Only on the orignal plane X and Y axis.

  Is it possible to do this?

  Dan Franzen replied 13 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mark Spencer

  July 3, 2012 at 2:37 pm

  Shapes can only exist in 2-D planes in Motion – the plane can be oriented in any way, but all the shape points must be on the plane (they only have X and Y coordinates). However, a motion path can have points anywhere in X, Y, or Z. So there’s usually a way to accomplish what you want to do with another method.

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  Mark Spencer
  Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
  Apple-certified Master Trainer
  Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
  https://www.applemotion.net
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  Stephen Smith

  July 3, 2012 at 3:39 pm

  Sorry, you can’t change a control points Z position. If it is a line or something you will need to make more then one. Hope this helps and best of luck.

  Stephen Smith
  Utah Video Productions

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  Dan Franzen

  July 3, 2012 at 9:19 pm

  Thanks for the quick help!

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