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“must be scalar” error
Hi all,
I’m trying to have a layers scaling follow a Slider control, which works just fine, even with a time offset for the child layers in point implemented. The last functionality I want is to multiply the incoming value from the master with whatever value the child was originally set to, so that the processed animation ends up at for example 80%, instead of 100%. When I input the solution below I get an error stating “one argument to mul() must be scalar”. I’ve tried to searching for an answer but to no avail.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
offset = thisLayer.inPoint;
orgValue = transform.scale;
animValue = thisComp.layer("Anim Master").transform.scale.valueAtTime(time - offset);
newValue = orgValue*animValue;
newValue -
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I just managed to finally hack a solution together that works, but if anyone know a cleaner/smarter way to do this please enlighten me! And also to know how to do this for example for a 3d layers position would be awesome aswell ☺
Cheers!
offset = thisLayer.inPoint;
orgValueDiff = 100-transform.scale;
animValue = thisComp.layer("Anim Master").transform.scale.valueAtTime(time - offset);
newValue = animValue-orgValueDiff;
[newValue[0], newValue[1]-100] -
Dagur – for 3D, you just need to add another dimension, with an array index of 2.
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Thank you Tomas!
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