How to stop stroke doing this when at an angle?

[Roei Tzoref]

that’s exactly what it’s doing – trimming the path. what you want is the offset. before that you should set the start and end point to your needs and then use the offset parameter. shapes in Ae are not that intuitive. and fiddling with the parameter in the not so comfortable timeline can be complected. I’d suggest you do a reading of all the parameters so you will know exactly what you are doing.
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/shape-attributes-paint-operations-path.html

[Ryan Gibbs]

It’s zoomed in slightly, I have recreated a font with a path, and am using a stroke/trim paths to have the text sort of “write” itself on. However at each corner it has that horrible looking cut that only smooths out when using motion blur, but for this project I feel it looks better without motion blur.

I’ll give the offset a go, but I don’t know if that will mess with my pre-existing animation.

Cheers for the response!

[Roei Tzoref]

you can control how stroke behaves in the cuts. bevel,meter,round etc.

[Ryan Gibbs]

Yeah, tinkering with that helps a bit, but to be honest I may just try a different method of tracing the letters.

Any tips?

I’ve tried converting text to masks and animating it, but then you run into problems with C’s and O’s etc. I’ve also tried using stroke but it’s very temperamental and not the easiest thing to control… I’ve resorted to just using the pen tool to try and get it as accurate as possible and using trim paths, which works for the main part but is extremely time consuming, and causes a lot of problems with some fonts that have different stroke widths, and/or disproportionate counters.

Cheers!