Need help adding Z space to this connector expression

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi,

I changed your expressions to this:

/ apply this Expression to the Connector layer’s Position parameter
// set follow1 below to the name of the first layer to follow
follow1 = “End 1”
this_comp.layer(follow1).position
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// apply this Expression to Connector layer’s ORIENTATION parameter
// set follow2 below to the name of second layer to follow
follow2 = “End 2”
lookAt(position,this_comp.layer(follow2).position);
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// apply this Expression to Connector layer’s Scale parameter
// set follow2 below to the name of second layer to follow
follow2 = “End 2”
stretch = 100 * (length(position,this_comp.layer(follow2).position) / this.width);
[stretch,scale[1], scale[2]];
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Set Y Rotation to -90 degrees

I changed the Stretch expression so it works for layers that are not 100px wide.

Kown Issue:

– the line can get pretty thin at certain positions: it connects the two objects perfectly, but it doesn’t automatically show it’s flattest widest side to the camera.

– this only seems to work in Comps that have Square Pixel aspect ratio.

[Afshar13]

Your the man!!! Thanks i will plug and play…

[Afshar13]

that seemed to do it accept where my connector touches my second element the connector does’nt quite touch it. There is a little gap between it and the element. I tried simply increasing the size of the connector but no joy. Any final sugestions for this AE newbe…
thanks again!

[Filip Vandueren]

Is it a solid or a vector layer ?

Perhaps toggling on the “Rasterize Continously” switch will help, as It could be an interpolation-stretch error from the soft edge.
Also make sure the AnchorPoint’s left is exactly at 0

[Mylenium]

Most likely it’s the filtering of the 3D layers. You could only minimize this by using much longer layers, so instead of 100 px length use 10000 or so.

Mylenium

[Pour Myl

[Afshar13]

Its a vector mask, i will try these sugestions
Thank you gentlemen.