How to Visualize the Frontline of a War Map in After Effects (NO PLUGINS)

[@BooneLovesVideo]

What do you think of this technique? Do you know of a better method?

[@TheInformedCitizen]

I asked felt a long time ago nearly 3 or 4 months ago about how we can use Felt maps for adobe After effects or do they have any plug in like geo layers 3 they told they have not thought about it but after few days later they hired you for map making so i think they made their best decision to help us the content creators who love to make map animations.

[@aecartographer]

Not exactly a better method, but you could get it all on one layer if you add a Stroke effect to the text layer. Nice one Boone!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

@@aecartographer Ah! Going to try this immediately. :)

[@moonlightbtln]

I'm trying to animate a path using this technique, and it's not creating a keyframe or showing the movement of the path/vertices when i force a keyframe. Any ideas?

[@Jimmyni-kk4em]

U r a treasure for alot of people. Please don't hide content in patreon.i know you can make money with it but doing it on yt really helps amateurs like me who likes maps to learn and expand our knowledge. And are too poor to pay super expensive patreon. As we r from poor countries.

[@Vulcan341]

First time in my life i have seen windings font used and be useful, thank you Monsieur Boon❤

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Not the last, on my channel. :)

[@FoxesGamesHQ]

Thank you from Iran. I understand how hard you worked to achieve this technique. You have special patience and ability.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thank you! Hello to Iran.

[@Qiyunima]

Man, you just gave me what I need. You are the best Map artist on KZbin :)

[@SuperDeepesh]

Boone back with Monday Maps ❤

[@BooneLovesVideo]

I'm here! :)

your video always remind me about the world situation. Thanks and love its.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

:)

[@Debubbleization]

I would ave never thought of using wingdings at any point😂 amazing tutorial!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Isn't it great!? Let me know what you think after you give it a try.

[@animetapee]

I am loving map animation just because of u boone...love from India🇮🇳

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks!

[@AmitPrasad-b1j]

Hey Boone, Thank you so much for your videos, it is teaching me a lot. just one suggestions: Please create the timeline with title so that it will be easy to navigate and come back while we are learning. Thanks once again buddy

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hey! Thanks for the feedback. Do you mean add chapters to the video?

[@SuperDeepesh]

@@BooneLovesVideo yeah that would be a great add on 😇

[@ItsAmitPrasad]

​@@BooneLovesVideo that is the right word, thank you.

[@IFrezzy.]

brings me joy to see no plogins in the title

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Great! Trying to add more NO PLUGIN content into the mix. Expect to see more. :)

[@Bakinhageo]

The goat in fact

[@BooneLovesVideo]

🐐

[@Militaryjournal1985]

You are awesome man ! Simply awesome and a ton of treasure stuff you got there !! I wish one day I become a 10% version of what you have accumulated 😎🤓

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Whooaa too nice. :) Thank you for the kind words. Very happy to hear that you're enjoying the content!

[@vadimkasse]

wow! thank you for your channel!!

[@NestLeo86]

Thank you! Very helpful!! 👏

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the nice comment. :)

[@Riddio]

great work sir you are amazing

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@UserTenNumbers]

Would love it if you could dive into making FELT 3D and have better-looking hill shading, please.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@Ted52]

There is another semi-related thing I have always wondered about, which is linking two (and ideally more) polygons to each other. Say I have a yellow polygon and a blue polygon. Can I make it so that some of their respective points are matched to points of the other, so that if I move a specific point in the yellow polygon, I move the respectively-matched point in the blue polygon - and vice-versa? Thanks as always for your hard work.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Pretty sure you can do that, but not entirely sure how. I'd have to play with the polygons and see.

[@johnnysitu]

Hey Boone, do you offer Black Friday sale for your Geolayers 3 course?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

❤️❤️

[@vamboo8918]

Thanks

[@peace9943]

lovely

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks!

[@bohdanshorts]

Top content as always 🔥 Would the patreon video have the changing of colors of the map when the frontline moves? For instance you move the frontline to some portion of the invaded country and you paint that part of the country that's invaded in a different color via another layer or in some other way.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Yes indeed, I can do that. I'll get into working with closed paths, and how you can use those as mattes to achieve what you're describing.

[@ikhalood]

Hi Boone what is your advice to become expret at after effects like you? you're amazing

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Create stuff! And repeat.

[@礼之用和为贵]

i love your video brother

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks!

[@ELMUNDOROLUZ]

Greetings, I hope everything is well. Something happens that I can't use the Blending Mode when I generate a country-shaped shape with my last Geolayer update, that is, they aren't there, is that normal?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Is the country layer pinned or parented to the map?

[@ELMUNDOROLUZ]

@@BooneLovesVideo I'm going to check, I hadn't thought about that.

[@bastianrivero]

I tried registering for the newsletter but the captcha throws an error each time

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You can go to my About page on YT and find my email address. Send me an email and I can manually add you to the newsletter if you prefer. Just let me know!

[@bastianrivero]

I tried again from another device and this time it worked! appreciate it! @@BooneLovesVideo

[@SocialLensPathfinder]

Just superb! Thanks to Allah that He has given us an institution in your form. I will apply this technique in my coming videos. Big Thank You

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Share a link if you use it! I'd love to see it in action. :)

[@sakshijaglan7320]

Can we draw train route between two train stations for specific train??

[@BooneLovesVideo]

I would suggest using Overpass turbo or Felt to get it isolated, and then export from there and import into GEOlayers 3. Train routes are actually quite complex.

[@pavloshprk]

Cool tutorial, very handy and informative but... don't highlight Crimea as "specific" area, Crimea - is a part of Ukraine.

[@qonzo89]

i can't hear you bro, louder!

[@Shegolkov]

😂😂😂

[@BooneLovesVideo]

🙌🙌

[@bastianrivero]

Is it possible to make lord of the rings type of maps with geolayers or would you make them another way?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Indeed you could stylize your basemap in GEOlayers and then create your own elements. It's just time consuming, but possible.

[@bastianrivero]

@@BooneLovesVideo thank you! Gonna try something out 🫣

[@moonlightbtln]

I don't see the fill/stroke option boxes at the top bar like you do when i click the pen tool, any ideas?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

If you have another layer selected, you might be in Mask mode instead of shape mode.

[@moonlightbtln]

thanks@@BooneLovesVideo

[@bastianrivero]

How do i get specific data on geolayers, for example the great wall of china? i think its not on there, and im totally clueless on how to get it 🤯

[@bastianrivero]

my only guess for now is putting a google image with the map of the china wall on top and reduce transparency and draw the path the best i can

[@BooneLovesVideo]

I'm sure that exists somewhere as a data file. Maybe Google the keywords with geojson or shp.

[@bastianrivero]

@@BooneLovesVideo ah got it! Gonna try that! Didn’t know the filetypes! Thanks 🙏🏻

[@syedkarim7154]

Sir I need your help please send me step by step procedure

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Which step did you get stuck on?

[@nickjames5602]

Hi Boone, have you seen any of the war maps made by 'mapsinanutshell'? Would you know how to do this in After Effects? If I had to guess, I'd say it looks like he's using 2 layers, a blue invaded layer and a red invading layer above consisting of multiple shapes with their strokes set to Multiply mode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5mnh5luatFpnbs I can't figure out how he animates the encirclements of armies. I've asked him but haven't heard back. How would you do this?

[@magic-ji7ox]

Please decrease you course price 😅

[@BooneLovesVideo]

What price point are you looking for?

[@DLeaks369]

Whare is the video preview man 😂😂😂😂

[@dimonpopkorn7213]

Ukraine! 🙂👍