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green animated arrows
Helo
Could someone please help me
My background is in editing with FCP, but I need to make a simple (I hope simple) animation. I have used Motion more often than After Effects and would like to do it in Motion.
The project is a PSA about recycling.
The effect I need to make is a line of green arrows following a motion path around a newspaper and in a separate scene around a plastic water bottle.
This JPEG should help get the idea across, let me know if I need to give more description of ht effect.
https://homepage.mac.com/rondarby/PhotoAlbum18.html
I have tried the “Draw a line on a map” tutorial but I was not successful.
I was able to make the effect with a motion path and snap to alignment behavior, then duplicate it and off set it in the time line. It was OK but I was hoping for an easer and better way.
I would appreciate any help.
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Hey,
Are you trying to accomplish something like this? https://homepage.mac.com/specialcase/movies/arrows.mov
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Sorry, here’s a clickable link: Arrows
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Yes
Thats it, I might have the arrows a little closer.
Howd you do that?
Aloha Ron
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Here is my system
2 x 2.66 GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon
3 GM Memory
FCS 2
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Hey,
I did it using the same method in the replicator line-drawing tutorial. The basic steps:
- Drew a shape that will represent the path the replicator will follow (a rounded rectangle).
- Drew a line (with an arrow end-cap).
- Made a replicator from the line in step 2.
- Set the replicator’s Shape to ‘Geometry’ and dragged the shape from step 1 into the image-well that appears in the Inspector.
- Enabled the ‘Align Angle’ option in the replicator Cell Controls.
- Adjusted the number of replicator points to set the number of arrows.
- Applied a Rate parameter behavior to the replicator Offset value to slide the arrows along the path over time.
For this sort of animation, I recommend avoiding replicator paths with really sharp corners, as the cells (the arrows) will really jump as they make such an abrupt turn.
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Thanks a million
I did it in a few minutes.
I’ll spend some time getting it perfect, but it is just what I needed.
Thanks again
Aloha
Ron -
Maybe a stupid question, but I couldn’t find the anwser on the net, in the manual, or on this forum. How do you draw a rounded rectangle in Motion?
I do it in Photoshop and Illustrator all the time. I would’ve thought there’d be a parameter under shape for the rectangle.
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