drawing a stroked line in 3D

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tpassow

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to achieve a stroked line viewable in with a 3D camera. As seen in the Target Corp. video in the portfolio section of Exopolis. (4th row down)
http://www.exopolis.com/home/portfolio.php

I have been trying to get Trapcode's 3D Stroke to work, but there doesn't same to be a away to pin a start and end in that plugin. :(

any ideas would be great.

thanks!

Tom
Paul Tuersley
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Create 2 x 3D nulls for your start and end points, then apply the Beam effect to a 2D layer / adjustment layer and use expressions like this on each of the Beam's Start and End properties:

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a = thisComp.layer("start null"); 
a.toComp(a.anchorPoint);
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Atomic
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There is some nice work on exopolis.
tpassow

Excellent, Paul! works great! thanks!
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