Basically what I am trying to achieve is a line, just a white line, following a path. I should be able to modulate the speed of the line and the length. Right now I am doing this with particles, I have a single vertex following the path and dropping particles without any velocity or gravity and I render them as halo, but it seems a bit of overhead for such a “simple” task, any other way to achieve it?
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Simone
You could just make a plane, scale it down so it’s very thin, add loopcuts along the length and use a curve modifier on it. See the attached .blend file created in 2.49 in about 10 minutes.
HTH
Randy
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LineCurve.blend (129 KB)
Hi that basically makes sense but first of all, since I use polygonal segments as path, the animated line would at some point “jump” over the corners and not really go from one vertex to the other. I would also be dependent on how many segments the path has got to define a minimum loopcuts.
That said your way would certainly work but I am still looking for a simple “animated line” tool, just a plain line going from one vertex to another.
Try clicking on the After Effects Stroke link in my signature.