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  • Changing position of layers attached to null object messes up write on effect

    Posted by Timi Boose on August 18, 2014 at 10:24 am

    Hi – I did a simple animation where I am showing the direction of a light ray bouncing off a window. The rays are animated using the write-on effect.
    I needed to scale all the layers down so I attached them to a null object and everything still worked fine.
    I also need to move the position of the entire drawing to the right, but when I do, i lose my animated light rays. All the layers were pickwhipped to the null object, so I really don’t know what is going on…

    anyone?

    Michael Szalapski replied 12 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Michael Szalapski

    August 18, 2014 at 7:27 pm

    Just precompose everything to scale them down and move them.

    – The Great Szalam
    (The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

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