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I tried Layer Trail.
http://www.kuratani.com/pages/Movie10/m ... /Trail.mov

good work jpos

How did u do that? a moving box with the same color as the backround?

He moved a layer along the path of the face and then used the Scripts->Layer Effects->Layer Trail command. It creates a line that follows behind a layer's origin point.

Thanks for the example and explanation. Forums are cool -everyone benefits from the response. Answered one way of doing that letter drawing some mentioned in another thread -sloppily done but I'll post it for what it's worth.


http://stormvisions.com/moho/sparkdraw.mov

http://stormvisions.com/moho/sparkdraw.moho

Excellent! Thanks for posting the .moho file.

The Layer Trail layer does not seem to do anything in the file though. All of the work is done by masking and point animation.

Stephen

yep i dont get it
if i insert layer trail script it doesnt do anything

What the layer-trail does is to create a line when a layer moves. If you have a simple square that moves from one plce to another and then add a layer-trail there will be a line that shows where the square moved.

Like footprints. Hey! Thats a good idea! If you hade an layertrail with a footprint-brush you could make footprints! I havn't thought of that before.

Well, that's how layer-trail works. It adds a line that shows where a leyer has been. Like in the "Indiana Jones"-movies when they travel over the worldmap.


So the reason that no layertrail is shown in Bupajes exampel is that there in no moving layer which you could add the effect, exept the particle-layer (the sparks), but I don't see what good that would do.

Lost Marble wrote:He moved a layer along the path of the face and then used the Scripts->Layer Effects->Layer Trail command. It creates a line that follows behind a layer's origin point.

Thank you Lost marble.
I referred to your comment in the following pages.

Lost Marble Forum Forum Index -> General Discussion->Ideas on animating the process of writing?

And this is my project file.
http://www.kuratani.com/pages/domoho/LayerTrail.moho

yeah it works now thanks for the explanation

Does anyone have an idea of how to use this technique with letters that when writing, cross back over themselves? I'm thinking of a lower-case "e" in cursive.

@stephen - I'm at work but think you might be right. I used the tool but ran off so excited didn't think it through.

I tried Actions.
The expression became rich.
http://www.kuratani.com/pages/Movie11/m ... guci32.mov

i have tried it but it doesent work for me can anybody help me i didn`t understand it because of my english

jorgy wrote:Does anyone have an idea of how to use this technique with letters that when writing, cross back over themselves? I'm thinking of a lower-case "e" in cursive.

I'm also wondering how to achive this "masking" or "trailing" thing when to follow handwriting, also when the writing has different thickness for the outlines, i.e. I want to reveale something already written.