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Move Rig to parent comp
Hi,
I am working on a face rig.
I have created an eye with it’s rig in “Eye Comp” (simplified shape layers controlling a null with all the sliders controlling all the properties in artwork shape layers).
I want to move the rig to the face comp, and therefore have to change all the expressions to have the properties controlled by the new rig.I first tried the autoFixExpressions in a script… but since I didn’t create the expressions in a script, it doesn’t work. (or I’m doing it wrong…).
I then wanted to “trick” the expression reader by using a text layer to define the rig’s comp… no result (or I’m doing it wrong again).Is there a way to do this or do I have to either change all the expressions manually or write a script that creates all the expressions to then be able to modify them at will ?
Thanks in advance for any help ????
Cheers !
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2 Replies
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Your second method should work with something like this:
rigCompName = thisComp.layer(“Eye Rig Comp Name”).text.sourceText.value;
comp(rigCompName).layer(“Eye Control”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”)I’m not sure if the expressions will survive the editing of the text layer though.
Dan
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Thanks again Dan,
I think I had forgotten the “.value” at the end of the source text… I’ll check it out as soon as I can.
Cheers
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