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moving anchor points numerically without moving the layer
Greetings all,
This is probably a simple one, but hey ho…
I have a layer, and I want to move its anchor point from the centre to the extreme right. If i do this numerically from the timeline the layer moves as well, and I’d rather this didn’t happen as I have about 100 of these layers placed exactly where I want them.
So I’d udually use the move behind tool at this point, but since I have to move this with the mouse, i need to reference the coordinates visually and do some fiddly moving to get it dead on the edge of the layer, and life is too short.
So is there a way of numerically shifting an anchor point without disturbing the layer?
cheeeeeeeers
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I’d like to know this aswell!! Why isn’t there a numeric pan behind in the timeline?
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if you are typing in a value to the anchor point, just type the opopsite value in to the position.
though, since you say you have 100 of them, you caould probably write a simple expression to do so
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lots of typos in that post… i need my coffee still.
anyway, if you are adding 300 to the anchor numerically, just do the same to the position
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here ya go..
expression for anchor point
[transform.anchorPoint[0]+width/2,transform.anchorPoint[1]]
expression for position
[transform.position[0]+width/2, transform.position[1]]
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woops, that refers to the comp width, not the layer width and will work only if your layer is the same size as the comp..
just need to swap that part out
lol
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[rendernyc] “if you are typing in a value to the anchor point, just type the opopsite value in to the position.”
You actually want to type the same value into the position. The anchor point is the point in the layer that will be at the position you type in the position field.
The defaults for a 720×480 layer in a 720×480 comp are 360, 240 for each meaning that the center of the layer (360, 240 anchor point) is in the center of the comp (360, 240 position).
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yup… made that point in the next parts of my conversations to myself 🙂
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cool thanks guys!
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