In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use shape layers to easily create that Old-School look where a red dashed line animates over a map to indicate travel destinations.
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This works very well, thanks! Question: say it was a map with an airplane moving along the line. What is the best way to link the airplane (an eps file) with the line so they move together so that if you change the line, the motion path of the airplane updates automatically?
Try this: Layer > Transform > Auto Orient > Orient along Path
whoops, misread your post. No there is no way that I know of. You have to copy the shape path and paste it into the layer’s position – every time you change the shape path.
Thanks so much for the answer! Just hoping for a way to make editing easier. Oh, well!
Yes, I meant if you reroute the line across the map, as in it goes in a different area, a different route, is there a way to have the airplane’s route (which follows the line) update automatically. Thanks again!
thank you man you did great work
from Egypt
Hello, could you possibly tell me how you created the sun beams on your map… they are shining from the top left to the bottom right… i wanted to do something like that with a comp of my own, with a slow rotation? thanks
Hi Paul – I’ve posted the project file in my blog.
Hello Liz, Why don’t you try parenting aeroplane layer with the line layer and see what happens!
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