In this video, I present a question & one possible solution.
The question is “How can I define the exact X & Y coordinates of the end point of a custom motion path?”.
My solution, well watch the video and you’ll see 🙂 As I mention in the video I would love to know if anyone has any suggestion as to how to do this even more precisely. If you have any brainwaves please do leave a comment below.
Many thanks for watching and happy captivating!
Great Captivate tip! Thanks for sharing!
Forgot: the snap functionality available for guides is not working very precisely for points in a motion path. Can you please add your voice to ask to fix it by logging a feature request?
Thanks for your insights as ever Lieve. Yes, I certainly will log this feature request.
You asked for an alternative? Effects are XML-files, you can edit those files. Problem is that the move distance is always relative, not to absolute coordinates.
Here are links to the posts I was talking about:
https://blog.lilybiri.com/guides-rule
And this very old one (where I used line objects as a crosshair) , with an example published file in SWF format:
This is indeed the solution I use most now, and I have a blog about it, where I do present the rulers and guides as help for design.
Before rulers appeared in 9.0.1. (had been pleasing to get them since CP5, got very angry when they were still not in 9.0.0), I used line objects to create ‘crosshairs’ to line up the center point of the bounding box.
It is very annoying that we still cannot change the reference point for any object. For aligning the reference point is the top left point, for effects it is the center point, both for the bounding box. I gave up (since CP5) pleading to have that functionality.
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