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how to creat light trail for a shape layer like below

Community Beginner ,
Sep 18, 2021 Sep 18, 2021

Can anybody help on below effects? The shape layer is moving from left to right. The parallel light trail following the whole shape and shaded. I tried Edgeray efect but the light is not parallel. Any other effects can use or there is other good way to do this effects?

PHOTO-2021-09-04-18-10-28.jpg

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Community Expert ,
Sep 19, 2021 Sep 19, 2021

A copy of the shape or text layer with outlines + Echo, cameras, and lights. Something like this:

RickGerard_0-1632061664932.png

I uploaded an AEP file for you to look at.  The more echos you have the longer the render time will be. They have to be close together to get a smooth fade. Pay attention to the keyframe values. Adding an expression control slider multiplied by .0001 makes it easier to fine-tune the delay between echos.

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LEGEND ,
Sep 20, 2021 Sep 20, 2021

Since this appears to be a creenshot from a game, chances are it's simply based on geometry - the extruded shape of the latter mapped with a gradient and an incidence based shader. That being the case, chances are the best way to appraoch this would be a plug-in like Trapcode TAO. Otherwise you'll have to put upo with tons of duplicate layers, the Echo effect, Directional Blur and heavy treatments for contrast and transparency to re-create this illusion.

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Community Beginner ,
Sep 20, 2021 Sep 20, 2021
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Hi Mylenium, thanks for the advice.

Recently, I saw this short video (I attached here a few seconds for your referrence) in a shortvideo platform. It's so interesting that I want to do the same. However, I can't reduplicated it by AE. So this is why I try to find a solution here. Otherwise, I suspect they are using other software which I don't know.

The Echo seems working a bit but not exactly same vision effects as the attached video. Their light is straight and parallel. 

Let's see if their is better solution to do this. 

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