Stroke styles and vector masks

[jonathan (Jonathan Deutsch)]

@Bendora

I would not having the posibillity to be able to make a group and then open its path to make a overflow:hidden path animation. And this path animation works better with more anchor points to animate with.

I don't quite follow this request; can you elaborate?

If what you're asking for is a way to do a "line draw" animation on an entire shape, which may look like a line, then I think the way a future version would support this is via masking with a shape layer masking your draw shape.

@Bendora

Second: It would be great if there where some stroke style options out there. See the video and screenshot for reference.

There's the possibility of this, and to some degree you can do it now via SVG filters. Please see @MaxZieb's work in this thread:

Hype Filter Effects Enabler (based on SVG-Filter)

One-Line-Metal-Effect.hype.zip (193,3 KB) This is basically the noodle enabler (slightly tweaked) the experiment was more about using custom stroke-dasharray as the built in one is limited to one digit. This parameter is an array as the name indicates… so you can actually separate the spaces in the dash to match the spaces in between letters given only one line is writing it (look at Head HTML). The metal look could be much improved but that was actually not the goal (but could be…

@Bendora

Third: It would be cool if one could select one anchor point and change the stroke size to maybe generate a smaller endpoint of that stroke?

As with your above question, the bigger point is that those paths aren't really paths, they have become full shapes. I imagine for a variety of needs we will need to have the ability to turn paths into their shape outlines for a future release.

Thanks for the feedback!