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Advanced Lightning Circle
I have an animation i’m trying to replicate, but I’ve encountered some issues in the advanced lightning. I am trying to simply get a ball with lightning streaming randomly from different points on the circumference of the circle. Here is the picture:
I think it is “anywhere” lightning, but I can’t figure out how to get it to branch with segments equal in width, and completely randomly. How would I animate it to get the interior lightning to move?
Thanks
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4 Replies
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Make a circular mask on a solid, set it to subtract, and precomp the layer, then add the effect. Use alpha barrier at 100% to make the lightning stay inside the circle. You can wiggle the start point to get it to animate.
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Do I use the anywhere strike setting? Because then the problem is that it originates from the center, as opposed to the circumference of the circle.
Thanks
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It will originate from the origin point, so put the origin point somewhere near the edge.
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Worked like a charm! Many thanks!
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