Re: Animated Lines

[christopher]

Hi Hi


For straight lines:


Make a really small line in frame one.  In say frame 10 make a keyframe and

stretch your line out to wherever you want to trail it to.  Go back to

frame one, double click and select tween>shape. That does the trick.

Unfortunately if you want to "trail" a dotted line while the line is

animated it turns into a solid line until it stops then switches back to

dots again.


You can use motion paths for the pulse if you draw the line on a motion

path layer but it's not absolutely necessary.



For curvy lines I have no idea other than drawing a bit for each frame

which doesn't seem too cool... Maybe "trails" would be a nice addition to F4.


Christopher

Tokyo, June98


http://www.i-wonder.com



At 03:13 PM 6/25/98 -0700, you wrote:

>How can i achieve the effect of lines trailing out...

>

>I want a line to start at one point and 'move' to another point leaving a

>trail...

>

>How can i do this? ive seen it done before...

>

>Also i want to send a 'pulse' through the line... i know i can use motion

>paths for this...

>

>Please help me out :)

>

>Thx

>Dan

>

>

>

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