Gradient Along Stroke

[thekrausehouse]

Hello! I, and if you search discussions everyone, would love the ability to add a gradient along a stroke that follows the path. Currently, there are lots of hacky ways to do this. Typing in a bunch of ...... and tightly kerning them, 3D stroke, plugins like Thicc Stroke, but nothing native and easy to set up.

Pretty please?

[JayLash]

This has been a long time coming, please please please!

[Szalam]

While you can kinda do this natively with text animators and a whole load of these ................................ tracked tightly, that's not good enough - it should be in shape layers with the ability to use repeaters, dashes, tapers, and trimming that are impossible or harder to make work with text animators.

And, sure, there are third-party options like Red Giant's Trapcode 3D Stroke which can do this, but it should be native!

[Mike Choo]

A great big yes please for this one 🙂

[Kyle Hamrick]

I'd be happy for this, and it feels like groundwork has already been laid, since we have Taper and Wave operators with seemingly-similar behaviors. 

[natevplas]

This is definitely needed!  The current "Gradient" Stroke is a joke.  If I wanted a gradient that completely ignored the path of my stroke, I would just use the Gradient Ramp effect on the layer.