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animating a train in AE
assuming I have a series of layers arranged sequentially on the screen to form a train and I only want to animate the front car and then have all the other cars follow the same path, what’s the proper parenting or expresssions I need to set up between cars (i.e. layers) for this to work?
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4 Replies
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Here’s a good start, lots of examples:
https://www.motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/follow-the-leader.html
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The problem is that if your ‘locomotive’ stops; all the layers would come crashing into it. 🙁
The easiest solution that springs to mind would be to precompose all your layers using the ‘follow the leader expression’, do the motion of the loco in constant speed, that way all the wagons will keep the right distance from each other.
Then use time-remapping on the pre-comp for slowing down, reversing, stopping etc.But perhaps there’s still a more logical approach that would let you just animate the loco-layer.
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The last three examples on the page that yikesmikes referenced keep the “cars” evenly spaced. No crashing. 🙂
Dan
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Maybe you can try Trap Code’s new plugin:3D echo.
It might work in your case.****************************
I love After effects!
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