• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Rotate several layers incrementally based on parent layer

  Posted by Warren Smith on June 12, 2020 at 2:38 pm

  I’m trying to figure out how to add 2°+ of rotation to several layers all based on a single parent.

  So for example, the parent is at 2° then I want the child layers to be 4, 6, 8, 10 and so on.

  I can’t for the life of me figure out an expression… very new to them.

  Warren Smith replied 6 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  June 12, 2020 at 3:13 pm

  Assuming all the layers are contiguous in the layer stack and the parent is on top, something like this might work:

  (index – parent.index)*2

  Dan
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  Warren Smith

  June 12, 2020 at 3:36 pm

  I can’t believe how easy that was! I tried a few and nothing was working.

  Thanks Dan!

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