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Can I smooth out the movement of a parented layer?
I’m using geolayers 3 and I’m animating a road from a town to another. I have a car element following the road, using the trace path function, linked to the trim path.
The car element has a very bumpy movement, and I would like to know if someone knows a solution to smooth out its motion, while still being parented to the bumpy road generated by Geoloayers? To have it roughly following the road, but smoothing it out
Here is my project
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6 Replies
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How is the car linked to the path now?
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I’m using Trace path on the path, which generated a null. The car is pick whipped to the null
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It seems like you should be able to use smooth() to smooth out the parent’s rotation and position, subtract the parent’s actual rotation and position from that to create a delta, which you would then add to the child’s position/rotation. So I would think it would look like this (although I didn’t find any smooth parameters that worked very well):
d = parent.position.smooth(.5,10) - parent.position;
value + d; -
A better idea might be to un-parent the car from the null and just use smooth() expressions to link the position and rotation to the null’s values.
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Thank you Dan, it worked a charm! I indeed managed a better result with your second option, breaking the parent relation and using this code one the Pin layer position
thisComp.layer(“ROUTE”).position.smooth(0.1,29)
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Thank you for your solve, Dan!
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