From the course: Mograph Techniques: Physics Simulations in After Effects
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Create a Tree connection - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Mograph Techniques: Physics Simulations in After Effects
Create a Tree connection
In this movie, we'll take this state of the composition, which has some hopping spheres all over the screen and the x, y, z space of AfterEffects, and we are going to connect them using the Connect Layers script that I've showed you before. If you don't have access to it or you don't know how to install it, go ahead and watch the first movie in this chapter. But I already set it up so what I'm going to do is go to the file menu and from the scripts menu I'm going to choose connect layers. The connect layers script will help you to join elements in your especially if you'll have plenty of shape layers, like we have here. It will also create ropes, tree, or triangulation, which is new shapes that are being connected through expressions. And they will keep update themselves according to the changes or to the modification that you will do in your composition. I can show you how this works. In this course, I'm going to also demonstrate the rope simulation. But for now, we're going to use…
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