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Revealing Text with particles
Heyho 🙂
I searched for 2 days now, I still didn´t found, what I need. So if it is already in a post or a tutorial, plz don´t be mad with me.
Ok, here´s my problem.
I wrote a text and used the path mask and stroke to reveal the text over time.
But now I would to have particles flying around the point, where the point of the letter become visible.
At moment I am animating the stroke effect from End 0% to End 100% over a time of 15 seconds and putting a keyframe from particles every frame.But with this “technique” I need a whole day to animate just 1 font, and I would like to have about 10 -.-
Thx for help 🙂
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15 Replies
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Why not just set start and end keyframes for your particle emitter?
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cauze I would like to have, that the particles flying around the “new born” piece of the letter.
I want, that the particles goes the same way like the stroke, writing the word.Maybe I can´t clearly say what I want… -.-
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What effect are you using to write your particles? You should be able to paste your path as a motion path to a null object and parent the emitter to that null.
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Thx very much for the fast anser 🙂
I used the effect “Particle”.
Yeah, I understand, that I can track the particles to the Null Object, but then I still have to keyframe the Null Object, that it goes the same way like the strokepath, doesn´t it? -
you should be able to copy/paste the mask path into the position property of the null (selec the the mask path, copy; select the position property, paste). then the null should follow the path. you’ll probably need to adjust the timing of the position keyframe to match the stroke timing, but the positioning should be fine.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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wow, thank you very much. I got to copy it, but only for 1 mask. How can I do this for more masks, laying on my text?
And how to parent my particles to the Nullobject?
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select the layer that has the path in the timeline and type ‘m’ to reveal the mask path.
select the mask path property and choose edit>copy.
select the null layer, type ‘p’ to reveal the position property, select that and choose edit>paste. you should now have the null following the path, but the timing may not match you stroke.
to fix that, just slide the first and/or last keyframes to match the start/end properties for the stroke effect.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Thank you for your fast answer, but no, its just doing a new maskpath in the Nullobject.
And how can I do this, when I have more masks? Can I aplly more masks to 1 Null Object?
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[Mort Ulbricht] “its just doing a new maskpath in the Nullobject.”
make sure you select the property called ‘mask path’, not the mask (probably named mask 1).
[Mort Ulbricht] “Can I aplly more masks to 1 Null Object?”
yes, you’ll need to select the other mask path property, copy it, then select the position property of the null and paste, just make sure the the current time does not overlap the other position keyframes (or unexpected positioning will occur…).
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
Cool, thank you very much. I will try this later 🙂
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