Metcalfe's Law Expression Rig

Long and short: Your approach doesn't make any sense in terms of AE methodology. A classical case of working against the system and expecting it to do things it wasn't designed to do. Point in case: Eventually you will simply run out of mask points and AE won't draw anything and/ or you'll get massive glitches due to how this stuff works. That and of course you can't get any overlays for the nodes' points that way. And that's also why you won't get a proper network connections, either. Your "dumb" code, no offense, simply relies on connecting the path points in the order they are created, meaning on the internal point index. There is no genuine intelligence here. All that being the case, you have to scrap the idea and draw each path on its layer and refactor the code in such a way that all calculations are driven by the number of layers. This also would allow to include the point overlays on one such layer. You would then simply have some code that calculates the layer index to which to connect and which ones to skip over. Or in other words: Your code needs to be much more explicit instead of relying on automatic functions in AE. From a workflow standpoint one would likely even separate the outer circle into its own sub-comp and the inner connections into another for the calculations not to become too complex (and potentially again running into limits such as array lengths in JavaScript). Other than that you can always give the Plexus plug-in a try. Setting up a scenario as yours would take five minutes in it, but of course it costs money...

Mylenium

I forgot to include the expressions used on the outside path