Parenting without parenting

[Filip Vandueren]

I can only get it to work if you keyframe position and rotation, it would reference back to the situation at time=0 because we need a fixed state that describes the relative position between child and parent.

position:

my_parent=thisComp.layer("Null 2");

child_attach_point=my_parent.fromComp(position, t = 0);
new_position=my_parent.toComp(child_attach_point);


rotation:

my_parent=thisComp.layer("Null 2");

value+my_parent.rotation


Another approach would be to define child_attach_point as a fixed value, or as a control_point on the parent, that way you can start tweaking immediately without keyframing at time=0.

Am I making sense ?