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Subdivide a path
Hello,
In Cinema 4D, there is a button called “subdivide.” Feed subdivide a number and it will divide your path into equal segments totaling the number you gave. I want to know if this exists for After Effects. If not, how could I write an expression for one? I’ve been looking into this on my own for some time now but have come up with nothing.
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It depends on why you want to subdivide the path.
If you’re only after a visual representation of the segments, you can use trim Paths which works with percentages so only that part of the path receives a stroke/fill.
If you need an actual copy of a section of the Path, it’s a bit trickier: an expression can copy the points and tangents of another path, or get a location at a certain percentage along the path (pointOnPath), but AFAIK there’s no built-in way to combine the two: you don’t know how far along the length of a path a certain point lies, so that needs some code/logic
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