Nationalsolo Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Hi The Polygon Mask is quite a useful effect but there are no presets. As an example I would like to produce an animated circle with a transparent centre (or exterior) that expands to a certain size to reveal a background overlay..perhaps with a title. This is the type of thing..... This would be similar to the circle transition. The difference being that the transition cannot be controlled with keyframes.It opens all the way and cannot be stopped. Obviously one can create a circle like mask from the current ractangle but only with a certain amount of experimentation and the use of multiple points. It wouldn't be perfect and animating it would be awkward. (The mock-up image above was produced by taking a snapshot halfway through a circle transition.) What is needed are some preset shaped masks that could be picked from a list that changes the mask rectangle when picked into a circle/oval etc. having just a size control.This would allow easy animation of the mask with keyframes. Any comments or thoughts? Nat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_major Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Hi Nat, That's a really good idea! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaithstone Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 On 4/10/2019 at 10:11 AM, c_major said: Hi Nat, That's a really good idea! Thanks. Did anything come of this idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nationalsolo Posted January 18, 2021 Author Share Posted January 18, 2021 Hi Nothing as yet. The workaround still remains using a suitable drawn template image and creating a mask around that and then saving it as a template. Nat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c_major Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 We were drawn to the pipeline work after this discussion and overlooked this idea. Thanks for bringing it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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