• Adobe After Effects

  Create Null from Paths – only working with closed Paths?

  Posted by Isa Dimpfl on January 14, 2019 at 2:01 pm

  hi all,

  i want to parent a hand to an “arm” which is just a shape path in AE. the path has 3 points: shoulder, elbow and wrist. i want to parent an illustrator layer (hand) to the last point of the path (wrist).

  when i select the path and click the “create nulls from paths” script i get an alert “error: no paths selected”.

  does this script only work with joined paths eg. a rectangle?

  is there an other solution for my problem?

  thank you!
  isa

  Chris Green replied 7 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ahmed Emad

  January 19, 2019 at 11:50 am

  hi
  Be sure that u selected (PATH) under (Path1) under (shape1)
  but in your case i see that better to use duik bassel plugin or rubber hose plugin, its better for rigging characters
  duik for cut out illustrations characters
  rubber hose for strokes characters
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  Chris Green

  April 15, 2019 at 12:41 am

  Hey Isa, I’ve had similar troubles with elipses and rectangles. Try right click>Convert to Bezier Path. Should be recognised as a path then.

  Duik Bassel and RubberHose2 are good go-to’s for light-medium duty rigs, so unless you’re creating a really robust rig I’d do as above poster mentioned and look at those as options.

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