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Reverse Path / Mask Direction
Hey All,
How do you reverse the direction of a path in a mask? I need to animate some letters appearing using mask shapes (imported form AI CS2) and 3D Stroke.
I know about “set First Vertex” but that screws up the path shape and doesnt actually reverse the 3D Stroke effect, it just starts it from a different place but still animating in the same direction!
Any ideas?
thanks in advance,
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4 Replies
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You don’t change the mask direction, you animate the start and end parameters of the stroke differently: start with both parameters at 100, then animate the start parameter down to 0.
Unless I missed the question … 🙂
Steve
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I’m curious about this too actually. Your solution is fine for stroke but what about copying Mask data and pasting it into the Position of another layer (so the layer follows the path)? You could precomp and time-reverse but this seems sloppy…
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This script does it. Note, the path cannot have any keyframes and you have to select the shape as opposed to the path itself before clicking reverse (or it won’t work).
https://aescripts.com/first-vertex-toolkit/
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Right click on the mask>Close mask>set first vertex>right click on part of the mask between two vertices you want to remove>uncheck Close mask.
This should reverse mask direction. Unfortunately if you have animated it, you should do this for all the keys.
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