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  • Re: How can you create the perfect corkscrew spiral in After Effects?

    Posted by Unit_9 on August 1, 2007 at 8:22 am

    Colin, you genius, this is perfect!

    The only trouble is I’d like the spiral to move in the z axis as well (like a cork screw), so I added this line:

    x = radius * Math.cos( theta );
    y = radius * Math.sin( theta );
    z = radius * 3;

    But it didn’t work. I tried to figure out if it was the fact that the layer wasn’t selected as 3D, but there was no option to select the light as 3D and when I clicked around the other layers, I got a message “Effects using cameras or lights should be applied to 2D layers.”

    Does that mean it’s just not possible or that the z line I added was just nonsensicle?

    Cheers! 😀

    Unit_9 replied 18 years, 9 months ago 16,635 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Unit_9

    August 1, 2007 at 8:30 am

    Sorry I posted this in the wrong place, but I got it to work!

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