From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 14 Shape Layers
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Dashes and gaps - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 14 Shape Layers
Dashes and gaps
The default for shape layers is a solid stroked line, but the Stroke module in your shape group has a lot of interesting options. I'm going to twirl it open, and I am going to look at this section called Dashes. This is a way of breaking up that line. Initially, there's nothing underneath it; however, as soon as you click the plus icon, you will see that your solid line has broken up into a series of dashes. Let us zoom up to 100% so that you can see that even better. The length of that dash and also the spacing in between the dash is controlled by scrubbing the Dash parameter. Let's go up to 50 just for something nice and even. Once we have a longer dash to work with, you can start thinking about the character of that dash. Namely, how do we want the ends of that dash to be drawn? That's controlled by the Line Cap parameter. The default is what's called a Butt Cap because it's straight off. If you would prefer to round it, choose Round Cap, and now you have something more like…
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