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CC Particle World doesn’t mix well with expressions?
Hello everyone, would appreciate if someone helped me out with this frustrating problem.
I’m trying to link the XY Position coordinates of a Producer to the Position coordinates of a Null Object (a Tracker, which was the target of some motion tracking). However whenever I write the expression to do so (thisComp.layer(“Tracker”).transform.position[0] for Position X (in CC Particle World) thisComp.layer(“Tracker”).transform.position[1] for Position Y (in CC Particle World)) the entire effect disappears — sparks, gridlines, everything.
I simply want to have the Producer follow this Null Object around the screen, but its pointless if the whole effect disappears from Comp (and Layer) view whenever I try to do so.
Thanks guys
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Think I found the answer from this thread: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/972523
And here’s the andrew kramer tutorial: https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_stroke_effect/
cc particle world uses coordinate values based on a ratio of the position to the comp’s width, rather than pixels, so it’s a little goofy to set it up.
andrew has a tutorial that covers that, it’s the one that creates a 3d stroke effect using particle world. you might want to check that one out.
basically you need to add this width ratio into your expressions. so you expressions would look something like this…
position x:
target = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”); // this would be your layer to track
(target.position[0]-(thisComp.width/2))/thisComp.widthposition y:
target = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”); // this would be your layer to track
(target.position[1]-(thisComp.height/2))/thisComp.widthposition z:
target = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”); // this would be your layer to track
target.position[2]/thisComp.widthJohnny Cuevas, Editor
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