v1.3.x Motion Boutique Connect Layers PRO
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Connect your After Effects layers with dynamic lines
Connect your After Effects layers with dynamic lines! Create rope, spanning tree, triangulation with a single click. Customize the look of your lines on the fly using the powerful features of our plug-in interface.
It was originally created to visualize Newton2 joints but as you will see, it can do much more.
Connect your layers with dynamic lines

Curviness
Connect Layers PRO offers a wide variety of styles of curviness: steps, arc, bezier, Penner easing curves, and dynamics.

Arrowheads
When you trim your connection, the arrowheads follow the ends of the line.

Dynamics
Presets included!

Colors & Gradients

Trim, Dash, Offset…
The power of shape layers, minus the headache.
Connect Layers PRO is based on the powerful After Effects shape layers system, but you can control the settings directly from the plug-in interface.

3D World

A Great Companion for Newton 3
Connect Layers PRO curviness presets map
Description
System Requirements
After Effects 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018
Note on Compatibility
AE CC 2019 has introduced a new expression engine called “Javascript”, which is generally faster than the old “Legacy ExtendScript”. Since the plug-in makes intensive usage of expressions, we recommend you to use AE CC 2019 (or later). In the File->Project Settings dialog, click the Expressions tab, and change the Expressions Engine option to “Javascript”. Please note that projects saved in previous versions of After Effects default to Legacy ExtendScript.
Change Log
1.3.4 – Oct 19, 2022
1.3.3 – Oct 17, 2022
– updated aescripts licensing framework
1.3.2 – Mar 17, 2022
1.3.1 – Feb 7, 2022
– updated licensing framework
1.3 – Nov 3, 2021
1.2 – Apr 9, 2021
– updated the licensing framework with the latest version so the tool is compatible with AE Beta and the next public release of AE
1.1 – Nov 13, 2019
– Notarized the plug-in to satisfy macOS Catalina (10.15) requirements
FAQs
Tutorials
Create a Ball & Rope with Newton & Connect Layers
MOGRAPH TUTORIALS | ALENA explains how to make a ball & rope in Motion Boutique Newton and Connect Layers PRO for After Effects.
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