Distribute Your Layers in 3D - Custom Effect. Chris Zwar » Blog Archive » Crosshairs & Target – single layer preset. Thursday, November 27th, 2008 | Author: Chris Creating a target with crosshairs isn’t a big challenge.
But doing it on only one layer is actually quite difficult. This project is really an effects preset (an ffx) as the trick was to fit all the effects onto one layer so they could be saved as a preset and applied to a single solid. It uses a combination of standard effects and expressions to create a crosshairs-style target with many adjustable parameters. It’s a bit like having a plug-in for creating a target with crosshairs.
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