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Expression stopped working when keyframing slider control
Hi,
Basically, I’m creating a character rig here.
The Main comp is called “Main”, which has a MasterControl to control all the sliders and points, like “EyeL”, “EyeR”, “Nose”, “Mouth”, etc.
Then say, for the “Mouth” pre-comp layer in the Main comp, I pick-whipped the Time Remap Expression to a slider in the MasterControl, in order to change the facial expressions.
thisComp.layer("MasterControl").effect("Mouth Expressions")("Slider")/30;Inside the Mouth pre-comp, I pick-whipped the position of a null object (that each of the mouths parented to) to the Main Comp’s MasterControl as well, to fine tune the position of the mouth.
comp("Main").layer("MasterControl").effect("MouthPos")("Point")The following problem doesn’t appear unless the add keyframes to animate the mouth position. When keyframe is added, the point control for the mouth position doesn’t work anymore, nothing changes. If I change the slider value for the mouth expressions after i tweaked the mouth position, weird things happened.
I’ve read that it might be related to the start time of the time remapped layer. But I don’t understand fully on this, thus I don’t know how to solve this. Can somebody further explain this please? Any help would be great.
Thank you very much in advance!
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2 Replies
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Try this for the expression inside the precomp:
C = comp(“Main”);
ctrl = C.layer(“MasterControl”).effect(“MouthPos”)(“Point”);
L = C.layer(thisComp.name);
ctrl.valueAtTime(time+L.startTime)Dan
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Similar problem here, kindly help. Cant seem to figure out how to implement that code in my case.
Any help would be appreciated.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1062294
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