hello:
i saw my friend useing AE he made a path and there is a start and end points so he can animate his path strock ( like 3d strock plugin), does combustion do that i searched but i couldnt find it.
and can i animate my erase tool like its moving along the path?somthing related to masking.
thank u
Not sure I got what you mean but if you animate something from point A to point B you will get automaticly a curve between them wich is the path. Then you can edit it if you need.
It works on anything you put in your composition including masks of course.
I think he’s asking about animated strokes. Which I do not know how to do in combustion.
I think you cant do animated strokes in simple way in comb. You will have to get either some plugin or overcome it using animated masks :-/ Its one of things i really miss in combustion.
helloooooooooo guys:
dont worry i got a nice easy solution, its 3dstrock from trapcode a very nice powerfull plugin and easy to use
check the link to c what i made and what i ment
click here right click to save
so tell me what u think
If that is all you want you can do it with particles as a stencil layer for the final image. If you have Combustion 4 and an Illustrator file it is pretty much automated with expressions. One of these days Ill do a tutorial on doing a write on effect using it.
-Eric
Here is a simple example of using particles as an Input for Set Matte, I did this instead of Stencil Layer so you can use OpenGL to accelerate the playback. For a perfect sample you would have a Illustator or Combustion created path then using Expressions you can get a pretty automated write on. I have a function that allows you to set the Start Frame and Duration of the expression to control the start and length of the effect. That is what the tutorial should/will cover.
-Eric
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