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Card Wipe on hexagons?
I’ve been playing with Ayato’s instructions on creating the following effect from his site https://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae31_e.html
Now I have a question: How can I do this, but with hexagons instead of rectangles? It seems Card Wipe only does columns and rows, so I need some other way of doing it…
My hexagons are lined up like this: https://www.yeehaw.net/hexagons.jpg
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3 Replies
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It’s possibly doable with two instances of CardWipe. You’ll need to split your hexagons into two parts and have them alpha channeled. Set your columns and rows such that rows are tighter than columns. best to work with a calculator to get the numbers right here.
HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace -
Not sure I understand. How should I split the hexagons? Horizontally or vertically? And the Card Wipe, you’re suggesting two of them. Then you’re saying tighter on the rows than on the columns, but for which? Just one? Both? Do I reverse it on the other? Sorry, I just can’t see it…
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In the image that you provided, there are four columns. Let’s call them A,B,C and D; going from left to right, respectively.
Columns A and C should be in the same pre-comp, while B and D should go together. in fact, columns B and D are identical to A and C except for a slight offset along the y-axis. So you really need to only setup one set of A and C type of columns, duplicate it and offset the copy’s x and y positions accordingly.
The thing to note about CardWipe is that it abides by a very strict ordering with respect to each card’s (tile) size. This is the reason why you’ll have to break up your hexagon design into two parts in order for your effect to work.
As I mentioned, do your math first so that you’ll know how columns and rows you’ll need.
HTH
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace
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