Revealing Text with particles

[Mort Ulbricht]

I am really sorry, to ask that dumb, but how can I open mask path? I see only Opacity, Scale, Position.
That all.

And my After Effects Help is broken, so I need to ask, sorry again 🙁

[Mort Ulbricht]

Sorry, forgot to write ^^
With m it opens shape, but when I click on this and then on the Null Object, I can copy a mask, but nothing happens then. The Null Object don´t move. And when I copy it to position of the Null object, I get only 3 different points and not the mask.

[Michael Szalapski]

See if this page helps.

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[Mort Ulbricht]

Uhm, thank you very much, but they speak from a shape path and a mask path too. But I can find only a shape path, no mask path. And with “m” its shape path too.
Is it different at german keyboards maybe? Or are they the same, although they speak about them, as if they are 2 different?
(sorry for the bad english)

[Michael Szalapski]

You said that you have a shape path. It should work for a shape path just like it does for a mask path:
Copy a path to the clipboard: (Select a Path property in the Timeline panel, and choose Edit > Copy.)
In the Timeline panel, select the property into which to paste the path.
Place the current-time indicator at the time for the first keyframe of the motion path.
Choose Edit > Paste.

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