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Checkbox expression control can’t be animated.
I’ve set up a nested comp, where a layer in the child has its opacity triggered by a checkbox expression in an adjustment layer in the parent. The expression is:
The control works fine. When I toggle the checkbox on and off, the nested element responds appropriately. However, if I attempt to animate the checkbox (e.g. to have the visibility toggle halfway through an animation), the child comp only seems to respond to the first keyframe on the checkbox control. If I animate it from on to off, the layer will only be on. If it is from off to on, it will only be off.
Is there a way that I can fix this?
if (comp("Parent").layer("Controls").effect("Checkbox Control")("Checkbox")==0) 0 else 100 -
2 Replies
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If the precomp layer doesn’t start at time 0 in the outer comp, you need to compensate with something like this:
C = comp(“Parent”);
ctrl = C.layer(“Controls”).effect(“Checkbox Control”)(“Checkbox”);
L = C.layer(thisComp.name);
cb = ctrl.valueAtTime(time + L.startTime);
if (cb) 100 else 0Dan
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The child does start at time 0 on the parent, though. It does have some time remapping applied to it, though.
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