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FBF layer for more easily managed Follow Path

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 5:59 pm
by braj
Cool FBF follow path behavior: Get your Follow Paths to be more easily managed by using a FBF layer for the path. You can then edit the path at any point in the timeline without actually animating the line, with all changes done on Frame Zero.

Re: FBF layer for more easily managed Follow Path

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 6:38 pm
by synthsin75
I don't understand. If you have a FBF path, the following layer still only follows the first one you clicked on. How do you change which frame in the FBF it follows?

Re: FBF layer for more easily managed Follow Path

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 7:12 pm
by braj
synthsin75 wrote:I don't understand. If you have a FBF path, the following layer still only follows the first one you clicked on. How do you change which frame in the FBF it follows?
Oh sorry, it isn't supposed to. This is not for doing FBF, just for keeping the line static as drawn on frame zero, so you can adjust it in the timeline without it being animated. You only use one frame in the FBF layer.

Re: FBF layer for more easily managed Follow Path

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 7:17 pm
by braj
FBF is also great for simply drawing something on frame zero from anywhere in the timeline without going into preferences and enabling the whole app for that behavior. When you are done, you can drag the vector out of the FBF folder and delete the FBF layer.

Re: FBF layer for more easily managed Follow Path

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 7:39 pm
by synthsin75
Oh, I see. I always enable drawing on all frames.

Re: FBF layer for more easily managed Follow Path

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 7:56 pm
by braj
synthsin75 wrote:Oh, I see. I always enable drawing on all frames.
Yeah, I don't, so this is helpful. Best of both worlds really. Even enabling drawing on all frames still animates those drawings over time, so the follow path thing still would help.

Re: FBF layer for more easily managed Follow Path

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 8:08 pm
by braj
Enabling drawing tools on all layers would also be a helpful key command :)