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  Ungroup and retain clipping mask for each individual layer?

  Posted by Josh Brine on October 19, 2016 at 2:41 pm

  Is it possible to group a series of simple shapes, give them a clipping mask, then ungroup the objects and have them all retain the clipping mask?

  Basically I have hundreds of small dots, these small dots are clipped by a map, thus forming a map made of dots(lots and lots of them), I could leave it there but i am planning to animate these dots with newton physics engine, and need a way to have each dot clipped to the map, yet each on its own layer, I know i can do this dot by dot, however i was wondering if there is a way to clip a group of shapes, then expand the resulting shape into a bunch of shapes that i can break into separate layers for after effects?

  Thanks all!

  Josh

  Josh Brine replied 9 years, 7 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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