Fully-dynamic trails, swooshes and speed lines.
OtherCubed Trails is an add-on for After Effects that creates amazing, fully dynamic trails, Swooshes, and speedlines. You can set up a Trail in seconds, and apply dynamic effects to give even more life to your animation.
With OtherCubed Trails, you don’t need to worry about what you want to create a trail on – it will parent to any layer regardless of expressions or crazy parenting setups.
The trails created are completely dynamic and will update instantly to any change you make – so you don’t have to worry about updating them every time you want to move a layer over a couple of pixels.
OtherCubed Trail Features
Fully dynamic trails that update instantly in your composition
Add additional dynamic effects:
- Line velocity – have your trails react to the velocity of whatever they’re connected to, creating some lovely physicality.
- Wiggler – add a touch of randomness to your lines with the wiggler
- Add Movement – add some additional linear movement to your lines – great for creating trails that feel as if they’re flowing – or for making your trail as a base to use for creating hair, flags, faux smoke, or whatever you fancy!
Trails work with all shape layer effects – add trim paths, repeaters, zig-zags to your heart’s desire.
A velocity based line length checkbox scales dynamic effects to the velocity of your trail.
Description
System Requirements
Adobe After Effects 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018
Change Log
1.10 – Sep 9, 2019
– Stick Trails is an awesome new Dynamic Effect to let you stick your trails to a point or layer.
– Offset Trail lets you offset your Trail forwards or backwards in time!
1.02 – Sep 2, 2019
– When creating a new trail control with the shift or multiple select method:
– the point will stick to the anchor point of the parent layer rather than the top left hand corner
– if the parent layer is 3D, the point will automatically be made a 3D layer as well.
-Compatible with macOS 10.15 ‘Catalina’
1.01 – Aug 26, 2019
- Fixed small expression error affecting non-English users of After Effects.
1.0 – Aug 20, 2019
- Initial release