M3 Attach Particle to Paint Stroke

[Doyle Rockwell]

There’s a handy new aspect to the Motion Path behavior in Motion 3: the Path Shape parameter now has a Geometry option. This means that you can use any shape object in Motion as the source for a Motion Path behavior. And since a paint stroke is actually a shape, you just need to apply a Motion Path behavior to your particle emitter, set it to Geometry, then drag-and-drop the paint stroke into the image-well to assign it.

[Tom Daigon]

Thanks alot.I give it a try.

[Tom Daigon]

Works like a charm on both paint strokes and pen strokes.

[Adolfo Rozenfeld]

[specialcase] “the Path Shape parameter now has a Geometry option. This means that you can use any shape object in Motion as the source for a Motion Path behavior.”

Specialcase: I completely missed this new feature! It was a strong need I had, having more flexibility in terms of repurposing existing vector based elements (like shapes) as motion paths. Very useful!

WAIT a second! This option is also there for Path text layout! This is a good day!
I always found the way Motion dealt with different path types (shape/mask/motion/text) was very… not flexible in terms of building from existing elements. That has changed, I have to say.

Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
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