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Connecting two moving layers with a line
Hi,
I have a comp with several small, red dots that move independently. I want to add lines connecting some of these dots so that when the dots move towards/away from one another, the lines reposition themselves to stay ‘stuck’ to the dots.
If I can get this to work, some of the dots will have more than one connection. Perhaps this is important to note, I wouldn’t know being an expression fool.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Simon Bonner
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4 Replies
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You can use a Generate > Beam effect on a full-screen solid to draw a line between two points, all that remains is finding out the starting and ending point of the line:
Starting Point:
l = thisComp.layer("beginDot");
l.toComp(l.anchorPoint);
Ending Point:
l = thisComp.layer("endDot");
l.toComp(l.anchorPoint);
Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
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Use the beam effect on a comp sized layer and pickwhip the Starting and Ending Points to the position of your dots.
-Lloyd
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Tried this with the position value of a text layer so far, didnt work.
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In what way? Do your text layers have parents?
Dan
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