[Brian Lynn]

Not at all the direction I had been heading in to try and get this effect. This is why I love CC… Other eyes and minds to look at what I might have missed!

Thanks, I will try this after I get done with my current work project!

[Brian Lynn]

To add my two cents:
About Mac being able to run both OS… well, PC machines CAN run OSx… I’ve installed it myself, just to test it, on an HP laptop. The results? Amazingly fast. I installed 10.4.4 on a quad boot system (WINXP, WINVISTA, OSX, and OpenSUSE) just to see if I could do it. Its back to a pure WINXP machine now for work purposes, and, without a legal license for a PC machine I would not install OSX again.

It was a fun experiment, and I personally don’t understand why apple won’t license its OS out to everyone. 10.4.4 was faster on my HP laptop than it was on any CoreDuo machine out at the time. I’ve not played with the Core2Duo Mac machine’s but my HP laptops have not seen a gigantic increase in performance from the CoreDuo to Core2Duo verions (I have 3 of these laptops).

I would love access to Motion and FCP, but I’m not willing to invest in a new machine just to run a few pieces of software. CircusPonies notebook program would be another I would run, but still its not enough to justify a whole new machine. If apple would give me legal access to install OSX on my PC, I would go tomorrow and buy OSX, FCP, and Motion all at once, as would 1000s of other PC only guys. Image what that would do to apple’s stock…

Of course it would be very interesting to see if apple’s OS can be as flexible as windows once its spread out across 1000’s of machine configurations. That’s one thing I give Microsoft props for… Windows runs on just about anything that meets the minimum requirements, despite its hardware configuration. In this day and age just about any body can build a box to that will handle windows.

[Brian Lynn]

Completely forgot to add this line:

The lights fading up and down with the stroke as it passes you would have to fake on the last method… as far as i know there is now way to make the 3DStroke emit an actual light…

[Brian Lynn]

CC Particle World is in 7? I thought it was CS3? All my 7 has is Particle Playground, which is either way out of my comprehension to use, or its no where near as powerful as my other two, Particular and ParticleIllusion. I have a hard time even getting just round particles with Particle Playground. I can’t wait to have CC Particle World…

[Brian Lynn]

Just an idea, and I may be way off here…

Try to duplicate the path you’ve used for the stroke, attach a light to the path, and animate the light along the path at the points you need it to highlight the stroke effect.

I don’t know if a path with 3dStroke applied stays as a path or not… if it does you could likely duplicate the entire 3dStoke layer, turn off the stroke itself, but keep all the XYZ twists and 3d effects… then again, attach the light to the path, and manually animate with the head of the 3dStroke.

I’ve done something kinda similar simply using two 3dStroke layers, one duplicated after the first was made, changed the shape and look of the 3dStroke, and applied Shine to the second 3dStroke effect until it looked like a glowing light… the path animation is already there, and if you just shorten the stroke on the “light” piece you can easily make the smaller 3dStroke follow the tip of the first. It was a very simple clip though without a whole ton of alteration on the stroke.

[Brian Lynn]

Oh, I could smack myself. I knew there was something I was forgetting!

Thanks so much!

[Brian Lynn]

Lost my original log-in info, so this is Goblynn93…

Thanks for the response! I was so deep into that project at the time I forgot to say thank you! Worked like a charm. Took forever to setup but it would have been much longer had I needed to change each individual clip!

Thanks for the help!