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The Domino Effect. Literally.
I’m trying to simulate what it would look like to be looking from above at dominoes falling….
I spent a good couple hours trying to accomplish it, and came up with something that is in the right direction, but I can’t help but think there’s an easier way.
What I did was using a mask, have it morph to look like a domino from above to a domino shape falling. Looked pretty decent. I’m not so concerned about actually having white dots on the dominoes. Then, I imported a motion path and pasted it onto the position property and oriented the solid along the path. I did this as a trick to give myself a guide for positioning all the dominoes along the path. I then duplicated the solid many times and skipped along un-doing the motion path on all the layers to lock them in each dominoes correct position at the right angle (oriented to path).
But after I did all that which took longer than it may sound, I wasn’t totally pleased with my spacing and size of domino and other things, but to fix it at that point was incredibly arduous.
So, anyone think they have a faster solution?
Thanks in advance.
-Rolyn
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1 Reply
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I think I’d look at Dan’s page on Trails:
https://www.motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/follow-the-leader.html
You should be able to spread yur layers out with one of Dan’s expressions, then just freeze it in one spot when you like the spacing and/or setup. You might have to COnvert Expression to Keyframes, then delete all but that frame.
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