If anyone knows how I can fix this shadow or knows of another way I can draw a line that I can easily manipulate the curve and length of while still applying a stroke and dropshadow to it, I'm all ears. It looks like it's picking up the white color from the stroke even though I have the shadow set to use the color Black. However, the dropshadow is showing up more like a white glow than a black shadow. Because cast shadows only is disabled when you use the C4D. There are many ways to add shadow in after effects, but as i understand you i think the easy way for you is to add drop shadow effects to your text layer.

So I then drop this path composition into my main composition where I can position it over the map and give it a white stroke and a dropshadow. The text is the second layer, the first is a video with masked objects so that the text is visible as the camera passes by. Effects in the Layers panel, and select Create Layer. As it is a stroke on a path for ease of animation, I find that I cannot add a white stroke to it. After applying the Drop shadow from the Layer Styles panel as you normally. I make the stroke of this path the color I need for the body of my line (red or blue), set the stroke width to 24 and set it's line caps to Round Cap, and set the opacity of the fill to 0. Because the lines can change shape and length, I found that my best option is to draw a line path in a composition that I can animate the shape and length of (using trim path). The shadow can indicate how big the light source is and where. Below you will see an example of how a drop shadow is made in Photoshop. This is done by creating an offset shadow behind an object to indicate that the object is hovering above the background in 3D space. In this example, the shadow of the foreground object should. The traditional use for a drop shadow is to simulate 3D depth in a 2D image. I need to animate bunch of styled lines on a map that are either blue or red in color with a white stroke around them. Youll need to convert the drop shadow layer effect to a layer of its own, then edit that layer. Thank you for taking the time to read this and help me out.

Drop shadow to object in after effects