Moho Forum

I know that the Scatter Brush can scatter animations. But can the actual stroke, or scatter, be animated?
Say I want a scatterbrush made of little animated dots that become larger and smaller. So, I create my little dot animation, cycle it and then tell Scatter Brush to use the clipboard as a source. Now I scatter, tracing an line from left to right on my stage. The dots follow this ideal line and do their little animated thing. So far, so good.

When I play it back or export the movie I see the line from left to right as a whole, with all the shapes I scattered appearing together at once.

But what if I wanted to see the actual stroke animate from left to right? I mean, what if I wanted to see the scattering progress like I see the stroke progress when I use the Animated Stroke script or the Stroke exposure tool?
As far as I can see this isn't possible. But just maybe...?

Since the scatter brush includes fills (where the stroke exposure and animated stroke only work for strokes) you'd have to use masking to animate exposure.

True, I could do that, good idea! Thanks.