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Real simple rectangle manipulation
I’m having trouble doing something I thought would be incredibly simple…
I want to make a bar graph that ‘grows’ up from the bottom of the screen. I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong… Tried two ways:
1) I created a shape layer and added a rectangle with rounded corners. I keyframed the vertical size of the rectangle, but it just changes size based on the center of the rectangle, not the bottom edge. There doesn’t seem to be a ‘transform’ section for this type of shape layer, or I would change its anchor point. Is there any way to ‘justify’ a rectangle?
2) I tried using the pen tool to create a path/shape. When I create this kind of shape, it shows up in the timeline with a handy-dandy Transform:Shape1 section, which allows me to change the anchor point and justify my shape. I can’t figure out how to make the sides parallel/perpendicular, and I can’t round the corners. I would like this to be precise and nice-looking.
I also want to couple the growth/size of a bar to a ‘numbers’ text effect, so it would be nice to have the size value accessable by expression.
Thanks in advance for any help!
-Tim
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Thanks Dave,
I’m not sure that I can get the rounded corners and the stroke and fill styles I want from using masks, but I think I figured out a way to do it with rectangle shape. I coupled the rectangle’s Y position to the Y-size, and it seems to move the way I want… and having it all coupled to one value is going to make my expression easy.
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