Wiggle points in a path

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Nope.

I usually go with a puppet-pin solution.

If it is a non-filled shape with straight lines, you can use nulls and a bunch of beam effects to draw the lines.

[Andreas Ruso]

Thanks! I actually tried with puppet tool linked to nulls, but as 3D layer and camera the shape layer got broken. Pre-comp solved this issue. Didnt think of that. Thanks for your answer Kalle.

[Walter Soyka]

[Andreas Ruso] “Hi there! Is there a script or a way to do a wiggle expression on some points of a path in a shape? Lets say there is 30 points, and i want 5 of those to wiggle.”

I know you’ve already solved the issue, but there is a third-party solution:
https://aescripts.com/bao-mask-avenger/

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[Marc Pelletier]

You could also use the “Points Follow Nulls” tool in the “Create Nulls From Paths” script that is built into AE.

This will create a null for each point of your shape and the points will follow their respective nulls. You can then add a wiggle expression only to the nulls you want to have move in random patterns.

All the best,

Marc

[Michael Szalapski]

Marc’s suggestion is correct. However, you couldn’t do this in 2015 when the thread first began. This feature was introduced relatively recently. 🙂

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