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  • Linked position values don’t match up in between compositions

    Posted by Benjamin Sintemaartensdijk on March 7, 2019 at 10:21 pm

    Please see the screenshot.

    Within the same comp I can convert a 3D layers position to 2D coordinates. That works fine. But I get different values when I apply that same expression to an external 2D null.

    What am I missing?

    Walter Soyka replied 7 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Oleg Pirogov

    March 8, 2019 at 12:35 am

    Does the value varies with time?
    Cause expressions are evaluated at their respective comps’ times and times on the left and on the right sides are different.

  • Benjamin Sintemaartensdijk

    March 8, 2019 at 9:46 am

    Thank you very much Oleg, that was it. I was hoping it would be a silly mistake like that!

    Artist, designer, creative.
    http://www.benjamindesign.nl

  • Walter Soyka

    March 8, 2019 at 10:53 am

    If you have to have some kind of offset in time between the two comps, you can use .valueAtTime() to get the position at a specific time instead of the current time.

    Walter Soyka
    Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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