Stroke Width & Width Modes

Stroke Width sets the base thickness of the stroke. The Width Mode group controls how that thickness changes along the path, from a constant line to tapered, bulged, or custom curve-driven profiles.

Various Width Control Modes with Pen Shape: Flat

1. Constant Width

2. Start & End

1. Start Middle End

2. Curve Graph

Use Width Control Mode to choose the width profile, Width Easing to smooth simple profiles, and Width Scope to decide how the profile maps across paths, trims, or dashes.

Controls

Stroke Width

Stroke Width

Stroke Width sets the base thickness of the rendered stroke, measured in pixels.

If Width Control Mode is None (Constant Width), this is the stroke's final width before other effects such as Scene Scale and repeater width changes are applied.

If a variable width mode is active, Stroke Width is the value that the width curve multiplies. For example, a 100 pixel Stroke Width with a Multiplier Start of 50% and a Multiplier End of 25% renders at 50 pixels at the start and 25 pixels at the end.

With Pen Shape set to Sphere (3D), the apparent on-screen width is also affected by the active After Effects camera.

Scene Scale

Scene Scale

Scene Scale enlarges or shrinks the whole Thicc Pro result from the composition center.

Use it when the stroke looks right but needs to be scaled as a complete scene, such as matching a scaled layer, reformatting a composition, or resizing a look without rebuilding width, dash, and repeater settings one by one.

See Scene Scale for interactions and edge cases.

Related Pages

• Scene Scale

• Width Control Modes

• Width Easing

• Width Scope