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Is there a way to have a panel for basic transform information?
Hi
I’m interested in having a panel which will always show the basic transform information for any selected individual layer – similar to the ‘effects’ panel which shows you the effects parameters on a single layer.
Is there a way to do this?
It would save an awful lot of keyboard shortcuts and mouse clicks, opening up the relevant controls for each layer when I just want to adjust basic things like position and scale and have to wait for each shortcut to take effect.
If anybody has any ideas please let me know!
Thanks!
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4 Replies
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Hey Luke,
If you’re setting up a large project and really just want to see the information immediately if you click on a layer you could always set up expression control effects on the said layer and parent the transform options to expression controls
(ie. Seperate position coordinates and parent the x and y to a point controller.)
That way you could use your effect palette as a pseudo transform palette.
Hope this helps.
-Drew H
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how about you apply the transform effect and use just that?
Cassius Marques
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Simple solution! Learned something new today. Always just used the hotkeys for transforming. Cheers!
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Drew, just keep in mind ‘Transform Effect’ does not behave in the same way when parented/collapse transformed. So while it works great in some cases, in some it will fail (especially with positioning/anchor). Other than that, for simple transformations its definitely a good choice.
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