Growing barbed wire

[lorentz]

hi, i'm using paint effects barbed wire, and i want the wire to appear to be growing. i know you can use flow animation to grow it, but i want the 'knots' of the barbed wire to move along with the wire as it moves forwards, rather than the knots scaling up like flow animation does. anyone know how i can do this?
cheers

[bjohnston]

If I am understanding you correctly, youmay be able to use End Bounds to animate the the growing wire, and if you us the min/max clip in reverse, than the barbs will move with the growth.

You can them animate the barbs (twigs) to scale separately as needed.

Hope this helps.