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  Puppet tool pins offsetting using the toComp expression

  Posted by Ash Curkpatrick on February 11, 2015 at 1:44 am

  Hi, this is driving my nuts because I’ve never had this problem before.

  I’m trying to parent puppet tool pins to the nulls and for whatever reason, the pins are being completely offset from the null’s anchor point. I can’t understand why. I’ve checked my comp settings and it all seems to be fine. The only thing I can think to imagine might have gone wrong is there might be something weird going on from importing an odd comp size from an illustrator file (maybe?)

  Anyone have any clues?

  n = thisComp.layer("null");
n.toComp(n.anchorPoint)

  Edit: I’ve just tested this in a friend’s version of CS6 and it works fine. I’ve only recently updated to CC and if I attach the pins in CS6 and open it in CC, it works perfectly – but unfortunately, I have to use CC. Has anyone come across this before??

  Edit 2: It seems as if I pre-compose the comp and move all the attributes in to it it works. But I don’t remember ever having to do this in the past? Is there any way of getting around this?

  Ash Curkpatrick replied 11 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Dan Ebberts

  February 11, 2015 at 3:07 am

  Try it this way:

  n = thisComp.layer(“null”);
  fromComp(n.toComp(n.anchorPoint))

  Dan
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  Ash Curkpatrick

  February 11, 2015 at 3:27 am

  Yes, That works! Thanks so much. I’m working to an incredibly short deadline so you’ve literally saved me. I’m really going to have to find out why it works… at least until after this deadline.

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