Greg Cole
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Try offsetting/dragging your separate layers in the timeline until the images are equally spaced around the path. You’ll probably need to make them circle twice and then trim the comp to the needed frames to make a loop (if that is what you are after).
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Lots of ways to do this… Why not just use a solid layer with alpha and convert it to a 3D shape? You could use the lightning plugin and set start-end points…even match them to nulls that follow your shapes. You could also do this with a 3rd party plug-in like Trapcode 3D stroke (you would still have to fake some of the 3D) or Particular…
What kind of ‘beam’ effect are you going for? Laser, partcile stream, dashed line (could use text characters on a motion path…)?
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Try motion blur or CC Force Motionblur…
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Check out this link (Rustboy site)… There is a cool little tutorial on page 3 under ‘Making Of’ that shows/explains how to make rain drops run down a windowpane. You could use this technique the same way.
Basically, create your ‘teardrop’ clip then use a displacement map to distort the path of your tears…
https://www.rustboy.com/rustweb.htm