From: "Mike Abbott" Received: from mail2.eqx.gridhost.co.uk ([95.142.156.3] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5481869 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 21 May 2014 23:51:06 +0200 Received: from [82.69.32.195] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by mail2.eqx.gridhost.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WnEOp-0006Zf-As for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 21 May 2014 22:50:11 +0100 Message-ID: <537D1F8F.90906@vantagegraphics.co.uk> Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 22:50:07 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] Aligning a custom arrowhead particle to a pasted motion path in Particular. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------070504000607040505040402" X-Gridhost-Auth2: mda@vantagegraphics.co.uk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070504000607040505040402 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > I’ve pasted a mask as a motion path into the emitter’s XY > position. My custom particle is an arrowhead made from a shape > layer. I’ve reduced the emitter’s velocities down to zero and > reduced the particles/sec count to 12 so I get a simple stream of > arrow heads drawing on along a the pasted path. > > If it *is* just a case of a "simple stream of arrow heads" why not just use an arrow head character - Wingdings font for example, type as many arrows as you need, paste in your path, and use the text > path options + first margin property to push them along? Mike A. -- Mike Abbott http://vantagegraphics.co.uk --------------070504000607040505040402 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

I’ve pasted a mask as a motion path into the emitter’s XY position. My custom particle is an arrowhead made from a shape layer. I’ve reduced the emitter’s velocities down to zero and reduced the particles/sec count to 12 so I get a simple stream of arrow heads drawing on along a the pasted path.

If it *is* just a case of a "simple stream of arrow heads" why not just use an arrow head character - Wingdings font for example, type as many arrows as you need, paste in your path, and use the text > path options + first margin property to push them along?

Mike A.

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Mike Abbott
http://vantagegraphics.co.uk

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