• Adobe After Effects

  Repeating a shape around another shape

  Posted by Chris Gape on February 9, 2015 at 1:41 am

  Hi,

  This is a fairly simple request but it’s had me stumped for the past couple of hours. I basically want to create a circle of triangles that I can then animate. Basically so far I have made a single triangle and then used a repeater to duplicate them into a line. I now want to make the line of triangles into a circle and the best way I could think of doing that is to align the repeating triangles along a path.

  I’ve made an ellipse to use as a path but I can’t seem to work out how to then get the triangles to follow along the circular path.

  

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Chris

  John Cuevas replied 11 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Cuevas

  February 9, 2015 at 1:58 pm

  I would find a wingdings font that had a triangle, create a row of triangles, then just copy a circle into the text path options.

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  Thinkck.com

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