Tutorial 140: Making Custom Effects - Linear Wipe
Added 2018-09-04 19:36:34 +0000 UTCI am very happy I can get one of these out to you guys early. It's been a busy few months, but I had a little bit of time on Saturday to develop something, and this sprung out of it so I was able to record it yesterday because of Labor Day. So I hope you enjoy it!
If you're like me, you get annoyed sometimes when built-in After Effects effects are missing a feature that you want. For example, back in the day, the Ramp effect didn't let you swap the colors. It was a pain that was eventually alleviated.
That's how I feel about Linear Wipe sometimes. So this week, I decided to improve it. Linear Wipe only works in comp space, which is great if your layers are comp-sized. But if you need to put a Linear Wipe on text and then you have a change that forces you to move the text, you'll need to re-animate your wipe. That sucks.
If you're a $20 Patron, a preset of this effect will be one of the included complex elements for this month.
The code for the rotation function was derived from this lesson on Khan Academy. I can't recommend them enough.
