Follow multiple paths
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 11:39 pm
I have a scene in which I want to set up a layer to follow several different paths over the course of the scene. There is a little time between each path following bit. As I understand, the path has to be directly beneath the layer that's doing the following. How should I accomplish this? I can think of a couple ways, but am wondering about gotchas. Advice?
1. Merge the different paths into one big path and just control the following over the course of the whole scene - Complicated as hell. Also, these paths are using stroke exposure to create a drawing effect, so I have to sync up the path following with the stroke exposure. Would be way easier to keep them separate
2. Have identical but separate layers, each set up to follow one of the paths, then just set visibility on the right path at the right time - Since it has to look like a single object, that means when I switch visibilities, the layers need to be in exactly the same spot. Sounds like the most doable, wondering if that's really the best way though?
3. Split it into separate scenes, one for each path - There's an existing audio track it needs to sync with - this sounds unnecessarily complicated
I'm leaning to #2, but is there anything I'm not thinking of?
1. Merge the different paths into one big path and just control the following over the course of the whole scene - Complicated as hell. Also, these paths are using stroke exposure to create a drawing effect, so I have to sync up the path following with the stroke exposure. Would be way easier to keep them separate
2. Have identical but separate layers, each set up to follow one of the paths, then just set visibility on the right path at the right time - Since it has to look like a single object, that means when I switch visibilities, the layers need to be in exactly the same spot. Sounds like the most doable, wondering if that's really the best way though?
3. Split it into separate scenes, one for each path - There's an existing audio track it needs to sync with - this sounds unnecessarily complicated
I'm leaning to #2, but is there anything I'm not thinking of?