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instanced comp driven by expression
Hello,
I’m working on a weather forecast test and I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to create a comp (pictoComp) with all my pictos animations layered. And then put pictoComp in each cityComp and load dynamicaly the good weather picto by an expression. Without duplicating my pictoComp x times by the number of city comps.
It would be like an instanced pictoComp that would display a different layer for each cityComp.
is it possible to do it by expressions ?
thanks a lot for your tips -
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Thank you Dave,
for “Dynamic” I was thinking I could have just one comp A with different images in it . Put it in different comps B1, B2, B3, .. and what I wanted is to have A react differently when used in B1, B2, B3… etc…
But I ended in using images directly in B1, B2, B3, … and playing with an expression to display the good image with an external data file.
for sure “Dynamic” was the wrong term …. as everyday I will render the project for the current day forecast with the data provided by the meteorologist
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yes I know live weather forecast solutions are available, but it’s for a small local TV, and those solutions cost thousands and thousands dollars. So plan B… we are working on something with a predefined animation rendered from maya and overlayed weather data is rendered in after effects via an external file.
Actually they work with still images they receive everyday and place it in Vegas with a voice over.
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