I have a square and a circle a small distance apart. I want the square (child) to ease towards the circle (parent), then ease out into the final parented position.

I don’t want to animate the square’s position first, then turn it into a child and parent it.

I would rather turn the square into a child while it’s in the original position, then have…

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Absolutely the perfect answer Chris. I love this. I’m learning a lot here.

I need only 2 end anchor points for each line, no anchors in between (although my illustration shows one point in between, I deleted that in my project) . The path does look strange when moving the parent around because the handles are fixed after creating nulls from the…

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I’m looking everywhere for this answer but I’m having trouble finding it. It seems like it should be simple.

How do I parent the end of a line, or the end point of a line to the yellow circle shape? I need the end of the line to follow the yellow circle shape.

So if the circle layer moves, the point on the line moves with it, the other points on the…

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This is great Walter! Thank you so much for the help.

Is it possible to parent a point (end of one line) to a circle on another line?

The idea is that these are molecules connecting to other molecules. So the animation would be these lines with balls appearing first unconnected, then they would connect to each other, the ends of some lines will…

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This is great. It’s the perfect answer to the original question.

I would use this solution if I could but I need to do a few more things that this might not be able to accomplish.

This is a creative solution and so simple!

The only issue in my specific situation, I need the balls to be on their own layers because the ends of the lines need to connect to the balls themselves. I’ll have lines of balls connecting to lines of balls.

I’ve duplicated the line with balls, created a new name for the line (Line2) and control layer (CONTROL 2). When I add balls, the balls stay on top of eachother. Do I only need to change the line layer name and control layer in the script for the ball? What am I missing?

var thisBall = thisLayer.name.split(” “)[1];

var numberOfBalls =…

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Ahhh, that’s exactly what I was looking for. Wow, so nice.

I’m definitely going to have more questions, I’m learning AE on my own here using online tutorials.

Thank you Walter!

Cool! But it looks like it lost it’s keyframes and parents. :/

I hope this isn’t going to be too tough with different versions.

Do you have a youtube channel? Maybe you can make a quick tutorial?

Hi Walter, thank you for this! I didn’t see a notification from creative cow from some reason even though I’ve enabled notifications.

Anyways, I’m using ae 22.3, I can’t update because of problems I was having with older ae files for clients. Can you save for a previous version (22)?

I appreciate your help!

How can I attach shapes to a line and bend the line without distorting the shapes?

I’ve got a line that should have balls. When the line is bent, the balls should stay on the line and stay the same distance apart.

Here’s an image of what I’m trying to accomplish.