• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  parent layer to a mask vertice?

  Posted by Brad Pickford on August 16, 2011 at 12:32 pm

  Hi everyone. I have been looking for hours and can’t seem to fins a solution. I am basically trying to create an animated fire hose. I have used a shape layer (could use a blank layer with the stroke effect if that would be better?) and animated its path with a stroke to create a hose. It works well. I need to attach/parent a nozzle layer to the last vertices of the hose layer. Has anybody know of a way to get the positional data for just one of the vertices in a mask or shape layer,
  Cheers,
  Brad

  Brad Pickford replied 14 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  August 16, 2011 at 2:56 pm

  Expressions don’t have access to mask vertex data, so you’d have to use a script. I don’t know if there’s already a script out there that does exactly what you want. In any case, it won’t be a live connection–you’ll have to run the script any time you change the mask.

  Dan
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  Brad Pickford

  August 16, 2011 at 3:04 pm

  Thanks Dan, I was dreading that would be the case. Thanks for your help

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