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Orienting layer based on a vector.
Hello everyone,
Here’s what I’m up to. I’m making a stylized tree. All the leaves would be points on a sphere. So i have expression set for their coordinates based on the index of the layer to construct the leaves-sphere. that works well enough for the position of the leaves but i’m having trouble with the orientation. I want the leaves to be perpendicular to the vector from the origin of the sphere to the position point of the leave. I cant use auto-orient to a path since there is no motion path.
Can anyone think of a way to make sure a layer is perpendicular to a given vector?
thanks,
Wouter
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2 Replies
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Depending on how you define the center of your sphere, an orientation expression like this could work:
center = [thisComp.width/2,thisComp.height/2,0];
lookAt(toWorld(anchorPoint),center)Dan
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Thanks dan,
That solved it. I’ll have to figure out what it actually does but for now i’m happy to just copy paste it.
thanks again,
Wouter
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