Need help animating a bouncing object

[Lae82]

I found one example/solution you can try here.
jump_trail.sifz (3.4 KB)

Advanced outline layers have much more parameters you can fiddle with. Even kind of making the effect you were looking for.

Its based on this thread and Darkspace_be’s solution:

Newbie Q: How do I leave a trail?

Ok, I think I can leave a trail by animating a gradient fill in a rectangle from white to the desired color but I’m making no progress on this. I created the rectangle filled with white, create the gradient and grouped it and the rectangle and set the ONTO. That part seems correct. I then set the start and end gradient color to white. Since this gradient fill trails the red circle I switched to animation mode, added a new key about 1 second behind the red circle and at that key I set the gradi…