[Eric Chard]

::hedslap:: There it is. Thanks. (The # of times I’ve forgotten this….. ? )

But what do people on laptops w/o a numeric pad do?

[Eric Chard]

Excellent answer, good work!

[Eric Chard]

Thanks SO much! It’s perfect.

I note that the white circles have expressions on *dozens* of parameters to hook them up with their ‘parents’. It seems unlikely that you went to all that bother, so did you use some kind of cloning tool?

I noticed this because when I made a working copy of the comp, the expressions were hardcoded to a comp name, rather than using “thisComp.name”

[Eric Chard]

Seven years later, just what I needed. THANKS. ?

[Eric Chard]

Thanks: TIL that you can have separate blend modes for fill/stroke!

I wound up parenting layers with empty fills because me no mograph so gud. If I were to redo this I’d just use ADD for the white strokes.

Thanks for the help!

[Eric Chard]

Thanks Walter and Liran: I (vaguely) remember seeing a presentation at Adobe HQ on just this feature, but it had slipped my mind. A very helpful reminder, thanks.

(Trying to use “Change Color” or whatever it is is NOT very much fun.)

[Eric Chard]

Actually (and I find this often the case when asking questions) the second half of my post pretty much supplied my answer: precomp the shape layer, add some lines on top. D’oh!

It was just for alignment purposes, nothing fancy. Thanks for your reply.

[Eric Chard]

…YEARS LATER… (for the next user who finds this…)

After making the SYMMETRY OBJECT Editable (“c”), use “JOIN SEGMENTS”, or you will have a spline with Starts/Ends at both ends.

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[Eric Chard]

You da man! Thanks for alleviating me of the necessity to learn to script in Yet Another Animation Package (YAAP).

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[Eric Chard]

Oh, if one remembers to make an all-points selection set BEFORE running the script, one can re-invoke that set and INVERT to Select the new center points.

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