The Container FX 2D Follow plug-in creates an animation of geometry containers following a path defined by the 2D Ribbon geometry plug-in. 2D Ribbon must be added as a parent container to the container holding CFX 2D Follow. The geometries that are to be animated needs to be added as sub-containers to the container holding CFX 2D Follow.

CFX 2D Follow Properties

• Positioning: Absolute positioning evenly distributes the followers across the entire length of the spline. Relative means that the followers are added from left to right along the spline.

• Path Position: Moves the followers along the 2D Ribbon shape.

• Position Wrap: Interpolate means that text continues in the direction set by the last section of the spline; Clamp stops the string on the spline end-point; Repeat causes the string to move to the other spline end-point as soon as it moves over the end-point.

• Kerning Scale: Scales the kerning of the spline.

• Align: Rotates the followers by Z to align the X-Axis with the tangent of the spline at the followers’ position.

• Translation offset: Moves the followers from the spline in the XY plane.

• Rotation: Rotates the followers using the spline as a rotation axis.

To Set Up the CFX 2D Follow Plug-in

1. Add the 2D Ribbon geometry to the scene tree, then open the 2D Ribbon editor and enable Show Control Point Values.

2. Set alternating values of 30.0 and -30.0 to the Y axis values, creating a wave shape.

3. Add a sub-container to the 2D Ribbon container, and add the Container FX 2D Follow plug-in to the newly created container.

4. Add the geometries that are to be animated along the 2D Ribbon’s path as sub-containers to the Container FX 2D Follow container.

5. Open the Container FX 2D Follow editor and animate its Path Position value from 0.0 to 100.0.

See Also

• Common Container FX Properties

• 2D Ribbon