Moving controller from a nested to comp to the MAIN comp

[Dan Ebberts]

You could modify the Torso_line path expression so that it looks at the layer in the main comp instead of the local one, like this:

var controlLayers = [thisComp.layer("C1Torso_line Path 1 : 1"),thisComp.layer("C1Torso_line Path 1 : 2"),comp("MAIN").layer("C1Torso_line Path 1 : 3")]; 
var origPath = thisProperty; 
var origPoints = origPath.points(); 
var origInTang = origPath.inTangents(); 
var origOutTang = origPath.outTangents(); 
var control; 
for (var i = 0; i < controlLayers.length; i++){ 
  control = controlLayers[i]; 
  origPoints[i] = fromComp(control.toComp(control.anchorPoint));  
} 
createPath(origPoints,origInTang,origOutTang,origPath.isClosed());

but I don’t think that’s going to give you what you want. It seems like it would be simpler to just tie the local “C1Torso_line Path 1 : 3” layer to the one in the MAIN comp with a position expression like this:

comp("MAIN").layer(name).position

[Azmain Anwer]

Hi,

comp("MAIN").layer(name).position

It did the trick! That is exactly what I was trying to do. Thank you so much Sir Dan Ebberts! 😄👍

[Brie Clayton]

Thanks for solving this, Dan!