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Exact location of anchor point?
Hey Everyone,
I need to prove a co-worker wrong!
Is there a way to locate an anchor point at the *exact* middle of the bottom pixel of an image (or an exact corner)…without having to look at the info palette and do the math?
I ask this because it seems that I saw a video tutorial where an asset was imported and the anchor point was located at the exact bottom left corner, because he did a rotation right off the bat.
Thank you in advance,
-Jason Brown
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4 Replies
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Select the layer and hit the A key. This will reveal the anchor point position.
For example, for a 640×480 layer, the corners are:
(0,0)
(640,0)
(0,480)
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If you open up the footage in a layer-viewer (double click it in the timeline),
you can drag around the anchorPoint with the move tool (if it’s visible).Now holding down the Command+Shift keys (Ctrl+shift on PC i guess) while doing this,
the anchorPoint will snap to the center of the footage, to a corner or anywhere along the edge.This behaviour is not available in the Comp viewer using the Pan-behind tool.
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you can also let ae do the math by typing *2 after the value for either the x or y to snap to the rifht or bottm edge or 0 for the top or left
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OR, if you’re really clever, you can run this little script that can move it to any of the 4 corners, the center edge of either of the 4 sides, or the center. Exactly, so there are no errors, especially when joining layers in 3D space etc.
https://www.nabscripts.com/Downloads/(vrac)/repositionAnchorPoint.jsx
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