• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  layer index on a collapsed layer composition?

  Posted by Constanti Dinu on March 25, 2015 at 2:57 pm

  hello guys,
  i try to find out a solution on this but i need your help. i have a comp, let’s name it A COMP, and inside the comp i have a lot of 3d layers that are offset on z axis with this expression:

  z = index;
  value + [0,0,z]

  A COMP is inside a main comp with another similar comps B COMP, C COMP, etc.. all this comps are 3d and with collapse layer proprety. and there’s the last layer.

  now, all the comps are positioned on the z axis on zero position, as well as the last layer. the idea is to make those extruded comps, come above the last layer, (like a building that raises from the ground).

  the problem is that A COMP gets offset on the z axis because of the layers inside the other comps. Apparently, because of the collapse proprety, the index from layers in A COMP gets offset as well, because acts like all the layers are in one big composition.

  is there any other way i can work on my expression, so the index gets the number that would had if the comps weren’t collapsed?

  í hope a was clear on my description.

  cheers!
  Constantin

  Constanti Dinu replied 11 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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