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  possible for Time remap to work on top of Check box controller?

  Posted by Crystal Goh on August 14, 2019 at 12:57 am

  My situation | Comp “A” has a character rig that keeps a library of different animation. Each animation is within 2 seconds with a 5 second blank in between the animations (60 frames),
  so Animation 1 is from frame 0 – 30, Animation 2 is from frame 35-65, and do on.

  In Comp “B”, Comp A is inside and its being time remapped, such that I can swap the animation by typing the time it happens within Comp “A”.

  My task now it to add an additional accessory (a coat) to the character, and I use the Check Box Controller to control the opacity of the coat, and placed it on Comp “A”, within Comp “B”

  Currently, the time where I need the coat to appear is at 5 seconds IN COMP B, but needs to be played in ‘Animation 1’, which happens at the 1st second in Comp A.
  When using the Check box at 5 secs in Comp B, the coat appears at 5 seconds in Comp A, despite the time remap.

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  Is there a way to go about this by making the Check box controller activates with the time remap on top of it?, or its just not possible?

  Alex Printz replied 6 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Alex Printz

  August 29, 2019 at 9:56 pm

  It sounds like it’s not possible, but an option would be to make the coat’s opacity a master controls property with the checkbox, then enable or disable it on your comp you need to (you might need to pass the controller through several comps). I will occasionally do this if I need to duplicate animation references with slight changes, just tweak a property within a master properties.

  Alex Printz
  Mograph Designer

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