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  • animate light along text-path

    Posted by Bart on January 29, 2007 at 4:27 pm

    Is it possible to animate light along an animationpath which itself is text. I’m a beginner and have played arround with AE but couldn’t get what i’m trying to achieve. So if this is possible, could you give some hints how to.

    Thanks in advance

    Bart replied 19 years, 7 months ago 57,024 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Bart

    January 29, 2007 at 10:03 pm

    Well.. here’s what i’m trying to achieve. I have this great robot that is modeled in Maya. I want it to write a text in free space. De text should be written with the trapcode particular plugin. In the tutorial the emitter is linked to the light. That’s why i’m refering to the light I want to animate. If you have a better solution I’m happy to hear it.

    So in Maya i’m going to animate the finger of the robot along an motionpath. This motionpath is the text he’s going to write. It would be great if I could export this animationpath (or a locator that is paranted) to AE so i can link the trapcode plugin to it.

    Hope you kind of get the idea what i’m trying to do here.

  • Bart

    January 30, 2007 at 7:28 am

    Thanks! will do that first.

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