• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Getting Error on Expression for 3D Wrapping Text Tutorial

  Posted by Joshua Earles-bennett on June 22, 2006 at 4:45 pm

  I’m going through this Creative Cow tutorial and I get an error message on the part that says:

  Position:replace the expression with this one:

  Initial_Tracking= effect(“Initial_Tracking”)(“Slider”);
  Global_Tracking=thisComp.layer(“Global_Tracking”).effect(“Tracking”)(“Slider”);

  thisComp.layer(2).position.valueAtTime(time-Initial_Tracking*Global_Tracking)

  My error message tells me that it can’t find ‘Initial_Tracking’ effect. I made sure the effect was named “Initial_Tracking” (minus the quotes) and even copied and pasted the name from the code to rename it. What am I doing wrong?

  Joshua Earles-bennett replied 19 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Dan Ebberts

  June 22, 2006 at 5:07 pm

  You did apply the slider to the layer with the expression, correct?

  DAn
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  Joshua Earles-bennett

  June 22, 2006 at 5:14 pm

  Dan,

  Strangest thing. I shut down AE, then got your reply and brought it back up and now the error message is gone. I sat there for 10 minutes trying to get that message to go away and it wouldn’t and now its gone. Thanks.

  Josh of aplusj

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