Path Bend adds looped rotation animation to Path points, like a CC Bend + Rotation, but on the Path and all axes at once. Procedural animation will affect the point's position with delay.
Like a Path Delay, this script finds all paths in the selected layer and adds special expressions to them.
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Anchor Point location
Wrong Center
Number of points
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Example from Path Delay, but works the similar way
Every Path will be linked to a separate effect to control animation individually.
Also, all paths Offset are linked to the common slider. Changing the value from 1 to 0 makes the animations synchronized.
The script parses the layer structure, finds a common group for paths and adds staged animation according to their order by changing individual Offset in the effects.
For example, if we unite all shape groups into one group, the script will make their delaying similar, so the animation will be synchronical.
Path Rotation and Offset Path options allow manually changing the rotation and its scale relative to the points space center. To change this center, try to use our Reset Shape tool.
The Range is an important feature to smoothly decrease the points deformation relative to the position of the layer's anchor point.
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Range Visualisation
In the Path Bend and Path Delay scripts, we use Range functionality to control the strength of the deformation over the distance. But it’s not always easy to understand this range.
This tool helps to view this Range. You must select the layer with Path Bend / Delay scripts and press any of these buttons.
