Michael Szalapski
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[Colin Wood] ” may need to scrap the arrows that came with the diagram and redraw my own straight version for the purpose of animation?”
Yes. If you have your arrows going in a straight line inside a precomp, you can use offset-type effects to make them seamlessly loop and then bend it into any shape you would like with distortion effects. Might take a bit to get it set up, but quite powerful. The only hard part is the hard edges of the path. It’s a lot easier to get smooth paths!
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Puppet Pin Tool? Make a straight line animation (that loops) and then make it the right shape with the Puppet Pin Tool.
Alternatively, use Mesh Warp/Bezier Warp, etc.
Bonus: text attached to the arrows will warp with them with either of these methods.
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Or, at the very least update CC 2015 to its latest version 13.7.x
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Yes, that would be the reason. ☺
Those problems were heard and addressed!
There are also a bunch of bugs in that version that have been fixed. I would HIGHLY recommend updating to the very latest version of CC 2017 (14.1.0). It is faster and better in every way from 13.5.0– The Great Szalam
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What, exact, version number of AE are you using? Some of the behavior you describe sounds like issues that were fixed in the more recent versions.
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Thanks! This was really useful.
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I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. Each clone brush stroke is one element. I don’t think there is any way around that. You need to manage your strokes as you go.
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You could try using Mocha or even AE’s point tracker to track each piece and then kinda fake the rotation manually if needed.
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Can we see what you have so far and some further description of what it is you’re not satisfied with?
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Have you looked into the Set Matte effect?
Alternatively, you could use the Copy with Property Links option to make a second square shape that follows the first one and use it as a track matte for the bottom layer.
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