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  expression control time remap

  Posted by Justin Young on January 14, 2012 at 1:20 am

  How do I control the time remap value of an animation of a leg that nested inside a walk cycle?

  I tried this expression on the leg but it doesn’t work:
  comp(“container”).layer(“teen”).effect(“leg1”)(“Slider”)

  It’s like it’s not interpreting the expression as the animation takes place.

  ideas?

  Justin Young replied 14 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  January 14, 2012 at 1:54 am

  [Justin Young] “How do I control the time remap value of an animation of a leg that nested inside a walk cycle?”

  Tough to say because you’ve provided almost no information about how your project is set up — but I’d guess that you need to precomp everything in the leg animation except the time-remapping. In other words, you need to take your animated leg comp, nest that inside a new comp, apply time-remapping to the precomped layer within the new comp, then link it its value back to the container control.

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  Justin Young

  January 14, 2012 at 2:35 am

  I’ll try and explain what I’m doing.

  The guys legs are supposed to grow over time during his walk cycle….so.

  container>walkCycle>legGrowthAnimation

  walkCycle is timeremapped to loop. This is also where the slide control is but change the slide control value from 0 to 100, the legGrowthAnimation isn’t progressing. It just stays stuck on the first frame.

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