Reduce / Extend path effect
Like in After Effects, it would be very useful to have an effect or an option in the Stroke panel like the "reduce path" animation option to draw more complex strokes (instead of duplicate them), like in the RubberHose plug-in. Could be useful to draw characters or set up files to export to AE.
Thanks.
Grégory Fauchille (HDready Graphic)
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Thanks for the tip (good to know), but 149$/year is a little bit high (RH is 49$ for a major version) and the idea is also to import the paramaters into AE when the work is done in Illustrator, with a plug-in, we lost it. But, that's exactly what I was talking about.
About the caps, it could be another feature to add to be able to have both square and round on the same stroke. -
Ah, I get it now.
Sure! Ai does not offer this form the box, but there is an external solution you can use to achieve the same effect — Extend Path effect form Astute Graphics plugin suite. See the GIF attached.
The suite costs money, but it has a ton of useful tools inside. It’s up to you. You use RubberHose, after all.Note that I had to add another copy of the blue stroke to have a round cap from one side only.
Anyway, a worthy request. Voted!
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Hi, it not just apply several strokes, but the ability to trim (not reduce, sorry) them along the path, here is a gif of a quick exemple in After Effects like an arm.
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Grégory, can you please share an example? I’m not sure I know of the 'reduce path' thing in Æ.
RubberHose though I am aware of. If you want to apply several strokes to one path, you should open Appearance panel and use it to add as many of those as you like. Does it help? If not — can you please explain the request further?
