• Adobe After Effects

  Advanced Lightning Expression

  Posted by Dhl2981 on September 28, 2006 at 9:05 pm

  I am trying to get the Advanced Lightning plugin to animate along the outline of an image so that it looks like the object is being “traced” by lightning. I know you can control the endpoint of the lightning with an expression but I’m having trouble remembering exactly how to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

  Dhl2981 replied 20 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  September 29, 2006 at 2:18 am

  If the layer you want to trace is outlined by a mask, paste that mask into the position property of a Null, spread the resulting keyframes out to the timing you want, select the “Strike” lightning type, and apply this expression to the Direction parameter:

  fromComp(thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).position)

  Dan
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  Dhl2981

  September 29, 2006 at 3:46 pm

  Dan–

  Works perfectly, thank you!

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