• Adobe After Effects

  Reversing path direction

  Posted by Tzi2k4 on September 14, 2007 at 10:02 am

  Hi!

  After being able to set my first vertex of a path, the path is now reversed?

  I drawed it clockwise: starting on the map of Ireland in Dublin going south, then west, up to the north and to the east again.

  After I have choosen the first vertex to be in Dublin, I ended up with the path counterclockwise? I goes now first to the north-west, then south, then east and then north again.

  Any idea how to fix this? One note: I have a mask and I was unable to find the “reverse direction” button. Do I need to convert the mask to a path? (How?)

  TIA!

  Thomas

  Tzi2k4 replied 18 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

• 

  Steve Roberts

  September 14, 2007 at 12:34 pm

  Why do you want to reverse direction? If you’re using stroke, animate the start point instead of the end point.
• 

  Tzi2k4

  September 14, 2007 at 1:12 pm

  Hi!

  That did not change anything 🙁

  I tried animating the end of the stroke effect it goes counterclockwise and if I animate the start of the stroke effect it goes countclockwise too!

  Any ideas left?

  TIA!
  Thomas
• 

  Steve Roberts

  September 14, 2007 at 1:42 pm

  Leave the end at 100, and animate the start from 100 to 0, no?
• 

  Tzi2k4

  September 14, 2007 at 1:59 pm

  Hi!

  Thank you, it works now! Got a lesson learned 😉

  TIA, Thomas

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up