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3d beam effect
I need a beam effect in 3d space instead of 2d space.
3d comp. Camera is tracking past 2 shapes. I want to draw a line between them as the camera passes. I want to use the position of the 2 shapes to define the start and end point of the line.
Any ideas? Expression? 3rd party plugin?
Trying to avoid tracking in 2d as there are actually MANY shapes that I want to do this with..
Cheers
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2 Replies
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i’m pretty sure you can do something similar to dan ebberts’s 3d corner pin expression but applying it to the beam effect rather than the corner pin effect. they are both pretty similar in that they have 2d points that can be ‘attached’ to 3d positons. read his tutorial on 3d corner pinning.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Lots of ways to do this… Why not just use a solid layer with alpha and convert it to a 3D shape? You could use the lightning plugin and set start-end points…even match them to nulls that follow your shapes. You could also do this with a 3rd party plug-in like Trapcode 3D stroke (you would still have to fake some of the 3D) or Particular…
What kind of ‘beam’ effect are you going for? Laser, partcile stream, dashed line (could use text characters on a motion path…)?
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