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  • Growing Arrow

    Posted by Nightdesigns on November 30, 2006 at 10:14 pm

    I’m trying to make a growing arrow (think map, arrow going from point A to point B leaving the tail in place). What’s the best way to do this? I’m figuring using a stroke and somehow attaching the arrow head to it ….

    Mylenium replied 19 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Steve Roberts

    November 30, 2006 at 10:32 pm

    This has come up a few times. Search the COW posts (include the archives) for “arrow”.

  • Mylenium

    December 1, 2006 at 7:31 am

    Draw you path using a mask and the Stroke effect, animate the End of the Stroke to make the arrow grow. Copy the mask to the position property of the layer acting as the arrowhead and adjust the timing. Enable the layer’s auto-orient to make it rotatet in sync with the path curvature.

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