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animating a line between the anchor point of two objects
I have been looking in the forums but have had no luck, I am sure it is here somewhere because the idea is vaguely familiar to me. Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction.
I need to animate a line that connects two objects two objects which of course are moving. So I am hoping for a method that does not require me to key frame all of the animations. I am pretty sure I have seen a tutorial explaining how to link each end of the line to an anchor point, but I have no idea if this is real or just a late night fantasy.
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
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One way is to link the effect control points for the Beam effect to the anchor points of the layers.
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Worked beautifully thank you!
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How can I get this to work for 3D layers? I’ve found a post here on creative cow: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/8511
But I couldn’t understand the Korean, even when using Babelfish, to get it working.
Then I found another post: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/6984#12077But the expressions were out of context, and it didn’t work when I tried.
I’m surprised After Effects doesn’t just have it in the default tools to draw a line between two points in 3D. That seems pretty basic.
I have 3D stroke as well, but not sure how to program that.Thanks!
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