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Delay parenting? – not “follow the leader” kind
Hello!
I have 100+ layers laid out in a grid, rotating around a null in the centre of the screen.
What I would like to achieve is to randomly delay the start of each parented layer when the parent itself is starting to spin.
“follow the leader”-type scripting does not work since the layers are not sharing pivot positions, and are spinning in offset.
I guess that inserting a null in the hierarchy between the centre animated null and the target layer (in the layer’s position) would work – I could then delay the movement between the layer and the null using “follow the leader” scripting.
Still I’m wondering if that can be avoided, for I have hundreds of layers in my comp and would hate to create separate nulls for all of them…
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2 Replies
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Play around with this and see if it gets you close to what you’re after:
seedRandom(index,true);
maxDelay = 1;
delay = random(maxDelay);
parent.fromWorld(toWorld(anchorPoint,time-delay))Dan
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Guess what… it got me right where I wanted to be!
Thank you! (again;)
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