rubber band effect between two objects

Here's one, easy way to do it with a very inexpensive Script, called Ease and Wizz (you will need to create the connections, maybe using the Pick Whip in an Expression:

http://aescripts.com/ease-and-wizz/

And if you really want to control everything, you'll need to delve into Expressions:

http://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/elastic.html

Elastic Connection should do the trick...

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

I'm under the impression that the stroke has no "end" as such, since it's merely a stroke created by 3D Stroke, and relies on the mask or path for its' beginning and end. Maybe you need to pick whip the ends of the path to get it to work.

Otherwise, the Beam effect is commonly used for this, since it actually has points at the beginning and end, which can be accessed in Expressions.

There's another really nice, inexpensive script called LinesCreator:

http://linescreator.com/

This will do most of the heavy lifting for you, short of the rubber band effect, which can be done with keyframes, or using the second link I gave you above.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

the beam effect would be another possibility, if the layers are 2d you can use the expression pickwhip to link the ends of the beam to the layers.

if they are 3d layers, then you can use dan ebbert's 3d-corner-pin expression to handle the layer-space transforms (sounds complicated, but it's a simple expression):

http://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/threeD-corner-pin.html

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

Wow, thanks for these suggestions as well. Greg, that piece is really cool!

Thanks again

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