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Animating along a path….
Hi there,
Normally I can work my way out of after effects problems by going through the forums and tutorials on this site, but I’m kinda stumped on this. I have a vector image of an airplane that I need to travel along a path that I created, easy enough. The problem is that I need multiple instances of the same airplane following the same path, with a slight gap in between. Essentially I’m thinking of the Vegas effect but instead of the stroke segment, I want those segments to be my vector images. I need A LOT of planes so I don’t want to copy and paste and offset them, cause it’ll take forever. And particular world doesn’t give me the control I need. There has to be some repeater effect that can do this, but I just need a push in the right direction.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
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Do you have Trapcode Echospace? What about precomposing your airpoane animation and using Time:Echo?
Otherwise there may be a way to offset the animation or position using multiple copies and expressions based on the layer index. You’d still be duplicating the layer, but at least the offset would be taken care of automatically.
CS3, FCS2
[Note: Using Particular, 3-D Stroke, and now Form do not instantly make your designs “teh awesome.”] -
Hey Paul,
Thanks for the ideas. I don’t have Echospace, but the time>echo seems to do the trick.
Thanks again,
J
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