I want the first image of the dark ground and yellow/orange track pattern. As it’s displacement the tread pattern left has imperfections you’d get from a real tyre ‘printing’ a yellow paint trail behind it. The reason I want to do it this way is that it’s a wholly contained solution without any need for matching, tweaking etc. suggested below
I think the other solution you suggest probably seems easy to you but leaves me scratching my head – going ‘huh?’
No idea about curve UV’s, no idea how I’d use a 100+ png masks to reveal a track via animation. Unless you can point me to a tutorial where this workflow is fully demo’d it’s too big a gap between your description and my knowledge for me to bridge.
This whole animated tyre/DP rabbit hole has been really demotivating. It seems like a fairly basic thing – it’s a classic trope and I’ve seen hundreds of variations of this type of concept but it’s leaving me totally frustrated as there doesn’t seem to be any explanation as to how to approach it
