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Parenting across compositions
Hi,
I have 2 compositions using cut-out animation. One composition [Main] contains the background with special effects like lens flares. The second composition [Precomp Man] contains a man swinging a sword. [Precomp Man] sits in [Main]. I’d like the flares in [Main] to be parented to the sword which is in [Precomp Man]. I can’t put the flares in [Precomp Man] because I need to put special effects on the man (he is made up of pieces).I have already tried using the code below on the lens flare in [Main], but it doesn’t do anything because my sword’s position isn’t actually moving (it’s parented to the hand, which is parented to the arm etc).
I think that I have to make the sword’s position and rotation an absolute value that can be read by the lens flare, but I don’t really know how.
Any help would be appreciated 🙂
comp("Precomp Man").layer("Sword blade").transform.position -
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If everything is 2D, something like this should work:
L1 = comp(“Precomp Man”).layer(“Sword blade”);
L2 = thisComp.layer(“Precomp Man”);
fromComp(L2.toComp(L1.toComp(L1.anchorPoint)))Dan
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Everything is 2D, thanks for the code.
I forgot to mention that my [Main] comp is 500×500 pixels, and my [Precomp Man] is 1511×1511. The flare is definitely moving at the same time as the sword, but it’s not sticking to it like it should be. Could this be because of the different sizes? -
That shouldn’t matter. Is anything non-square pixels? Does your Precomp Man layer start at some time other than zero in the main comp?
Dan
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Everything is square pixels. Everything starts at zero and is the same time length.
I have a fake camera move in [Main] that consists of a scaling solid that everything is parented to. Could this be messing with anything? -
It shouldn’t be. I can’t get it to fail with any combination of the things you mentioned. Hard to say without seeing it.
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