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DavidBarkan
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February 16, 2020
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creating a precised triangle on Ae

  • February 16, 2020
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is there any way to determine the degrees of the trianle corners? for example, setting one of them to 30 degrees exactly.

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Kyle Hamrick
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Kyle HamrickCommunity Expert
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February 16, 2020

This may depend a little bit on the use case, but I think the best (easy) way to do this would be by creating a couple of rectangular shape layers (with stroke but no fill, and the Size Y value set to 0). Use the rotation properties to set the exact angles you're after, and then adjust the Size X accordingly to make the ends line up. 

If you're looking for something more precise and contained within a single shape, it would involve expressions and math. Do you need that level of precision?

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DavidBarkanAuthor
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February 17, 2020

thank you first of all!

Its an interesting and useful  idea. if there is a way to do that with expressions I would like to use it.  

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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February 17, 2020

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your explanation, but this solution puts it all on a single layer, so it can be a preset itself. One layer, no extra clicks needed. 

The controls are admittedly very messy right now. I'd ideally build this out as a pseudo effect, and may do so in case anyone else thinks it's useful.


I use nulls on paths all the time because of the advantage you have tying other things to the nulls. Just the way I work. I have about 100 controllers that are based on layer index so they work with layers below a null. I have about 50 presets that are in pairs, one to add to a bunch of layers and another to add the controller layer. It's just the way I work.

 

Like I said, good work. If I create that kind of a rig I would tie the controller to a text layer that would give me readouts of the angles and lengths of the sides, and I'd want to use nulls so I could tie other things to them like pointers or call outs. The Points follow Nulls script is probably my most used script when I'm dealing with attaching anything to a path. My second most used script when dealing with paths is to use Nulls follow Path. 

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