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follow the leader with delay – but on a curvy shape
Hi
I have been using after effects for several years nd usually can sort of fudge my way through expressions (without truly understanding what i am doing). but today I can´t seem to figure out how to do this one.
I have a set of yellow squares which i want to flow in a “follow the leader with delay” type manner, ending up forming a cloud shape (which is the logo of the company). I am animating the first layer using a mask shape which I then copied into it’s position properties and selected “orient towards line¨.
Usually when doing a “follow the leader” type animation i use this expression:
thisComp.layer(A).position.valueAtTime(time-.1)
and to displace the next layer i add a -50 or whatever to the end. But this is a curvy shape so if i just put -50 it goes off the path….
In the picture i have just manually placed them to give you an idea…
https://www.annagreve.com/example.jpg
I have been staring at this for ages, I can´t figure it out!
thanks! 🙂 anna
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hi thanks, yeah I had actually (re)discovered that site yesterday and got it working but the orient to path doesn’t seem to work quite as it should. The weird thing is everything goes as it should, and then every 3 frames or so the objects in the “trail” flip out and rotate like 90 degrees instead of orienting to the path, then they go back to orienting as they should.
Anyone come across this roblem before?
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