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How to create light streaks a long hundreds of paths?
Hi all,
I would like to simulate a timelapse of traffic for one country. I have drawn all the main roads (hundreds of strokes) and now I would like to animate light streaks along these paths. At the moment I am using dashed lines and animating the offset. Then I use the echo effect to give it the looks of an energy beam.
The problem with this method is that everything moves quite linear. To simulate a timelapse I would like to have a particle system in witch each particle picks a random path and has a different speed and life time. I am familiair with Particular, but I haven’t find a method to use it with random paths.
Maybe there is another way to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance!
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2 Replies
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You could probably use this technique:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1nGa-RGKpk
In brief, create lights that travel along the paths and make Particular use those lights as emitters.
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Yeah I thought of that, but when you have hundreds of paths, the project becomes to slow to work with. I am now trying a simpler approach by using radial pulses (scaling circles with some turbulence displace ) and using all the roads as a track matte. It’s a lot better already, and not that slow anymore.
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