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Reversing the Stroking of a Path
Apologies as I am sure it’s been gone over countless times. I have several paths that need to be stroked out from one central origin point. I created all the paths previously-some seemingly from the destination point back to the point of origin. No matter what I do in the Start and End values in the Stroke effect, the path always starts at the destination point. Assuming this is tied to the order the points were created, is there no way to reverse/change the destination/origin points AFTER the fact? The paths I have are fairly complex and would like to avoid recreating them. TIA!
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You can animate some strokes in reverse (make a copy of the layer and keep the OK strokes separate):
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/843771
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I would convert the paths to shapes using:
https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_MasksToShapes
In shape layers, there’s a trim path function that will do the same as an animated stroke, and every single shape bezier curve has it’s own reverse path button.
+ as an added bonus the end result is vector crispy, and has other stuff you can’t do with strokes -
Or you can precomp your stoke animaion and apply time remapping
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You can directly reverse the direction of a shape path. There’s a pair of buttons (Reverse Path Direction On and Reverse Path Direction Off) next to the Path property in the Timeline panel.
And stroking shapes is much more versatile than stroking masks.
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