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Controlling Pos of a layer from null in parent comp. child comp starts later
Hey, I apologise, I’m sure this has probably been covered hundreds of times but I can’t find the solution anywhere and I’m tearing what little of my hair is left out!
I have a an animation of a train moving between various stations, the animation has by necessity been split into separate scenes, but I want the train within each of those scenes to move seamlessly between them, I have the train comp within each scene, and I’m sure I can parent the position of the train comp to a null in the main parent comp and use that to control the position, but it isn’t working.
I think it’s down to the comps starting at different times along the main comp’s timeline, but I can’t for the life of me figure out the code to solve that, I’m 100% sure I’ve found the code before but no luck this time.
Using AE 2021
replied 4 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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The nested comp with offset start time stuff is always tricky, but it will probably look something like this:
C = comp("Main");
L1 = C.layer("Null 1");
L2 = C.layer(thisComp.name);
L2.fromComp(L1.toComp(L1.anchorPoint,time+L2.startTime));
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