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Scaling of path enlarges pixels
by Jeroen van der Meer on Mar 7, 2008 at 7:42:40 pm

Using more than one tutorial, I wanted to create a 'moving map'-effect.

For example: http://www.vd-meer.net/example.avi

in this animation I scale the path together with the background. But as a side-effect the pixels become very huge. Is there another way to reach this effect with a constant line-width?


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Re: Scaling of path enlarges pixels
by Ian Corey on Mar 7, 2008 at 8:59:25 pm

You can try animating the width of the stroke relative to your zoom.



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Re: Scaling of path enlarges pixels
by Jeroen van der Meer on Mar 7, 2008 at 9:42:13 pm

I've tried this, but the line-width in the example is only 3 pixels and I can't go under 1px.
And still it's covering almost my whole screen at the start. In the example i've hidden the line for the first few frames.

To get a idea: in this example the scaling factor ranges from 800,000% to 600% to 600,000%



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Re: Scaling of path enlarges pixels
by Ian Corey on Mar 7, 2008 at 10:09:07 pm

600,000%, huh? Hm. There's probably a better way of getting that effect than blowing it up so much.



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Re: Scaling of path enlarges pixels
by Antony Buonomo on Mar 8, 2008 at 4:07:28 pm

Have you tried tying the brush size in the Stroke effect to the scale of the map using the linear() expression?

I'm sure an expression guru can help you.

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Re: Scaling of path enlarges pixels
by Jeroen Meer on Mar 8, 2008 at 9:33:38 pm

[This site seems to have problems with spaces in the lastname, so I use another account, but I'm the original poster...]

I used the vegas effect for the line. But I've also tried the stroke effect, but with this effect the problem stays the same. A width of 1px and a zoom-factor of 600000% seems to fill the complete screen.

I think that it should be possible by resize the path itself, but I don't know how to do that.



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