FLASHLIGHT After Effects Tutorial - No Plugins Required

In this After Effects tutorial I'll show how I make a realistic flashlight effect. No advanced knowledge of After Effects is needed and no third party plugins is required for this tutorial.

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Here is the expression I used for the Ending point of the Beam effect:

point1=effect("Beam")("Starting Point");
point2=effect("Beam")("Ending Point");
distance=length(point1,point2);
thickness=effect("Beam")("Starting Thickness");
thickness*15000/distance;

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This is the expression for the Wipe angle of the Linear wipe effect:

point1=effect("Beam")("Starting Point")[0]-effect("Beam")("Ending Point")[0];
point2=effect("Beam")("Starting Point")[1]-effect("Beam")("Ending Point")[1];

radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(point2,point1))+90;

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Music by Nihilcore - Solipsism
Link: http://www.nihilore.com/

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