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7d ago

Move Multiple Paths together

I'm trying to create a film reel that is pliable and able to bend in different shapes. When I create a rectangle inside of a rectangle and then connect bones to the bezier handles inside of the outer rectangle, only the outer rectangle moves with the bone. I assumed that because the other rectangle was inside of the outer rectangle that the path would also move with the outer rectangle. This is strange as I would imaging that creating different shapes inside of shapes would allow for the paths to stay inline with each other. Can you shed some light on how you would achieve this?

I can upload a file, however, I'm not sure where do to that in this thread.

Thanks!

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7d ago

Hey there! It sounds like you've got 2 paths on a single shape layer (which is totally fine), but you've only bound 1 path to your bones, which is why it's only affecting the outer rectangle.

You've got two options to get that second path moving. The first is to just bind and weight it to your bones. The second is to create a hierarchical connection between the shape layer and one of the bones.

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(edited) 7d ago

Thanks The problem is that the second path needs to have the same movements as the main path. That seems like a lot of work to get the path to move in the same way as the outside path.

S
7d ago

Also, I can't create a hierarchical connect with a Bezier handle, can I?

S
7d ago

This is basically what I'm trying to create. See how the film folds in at the ends. I need to animate this and want it to be pliable but also hold its path relationship. I guess I would also need a back side to this as well. Is that even possible?

R
7d ago

Sure, I can give you an example of something like this. Give me a little bit.

R
7d ago

Based off of what I'm seeing, this is how I'd start.

film_rig.rev
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(edited) 6d ago

. Thanks so much for taking the time to show me how you did this. I had to watch it 5 times to catch what you were doing. This really got my creative juices flowing and this is what I came up with. I'm using the trim path for the film edges and it look pretty good! It also allows for less rigging. I'm trying to add text to the center but I want the text to flow with the film. If I convert the text to shape, then I need to rig up the bezier handles for each individual letter!!! That would be crazy. Is there a way to get the words to follow the same path? Uploading file here.

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6d ago

film_test.rev
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