position breaks with parenting!

[Filip Vandueren]

The simplest solution (if possible) is to also parent “circle 3” to the same null.

Positions of a child are relative to it’s parent.
The value that you’re retrieving from “circle 3” is relative to it’s parent (if it has one).

While it is possible to recalculate the position-value through expression, but then why would you parent them ?
If you only way multiple layers to have the same rotation as a null, without it affecting their position or scale, you should not parent, but use an expression for their rotation like:

thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).transform.rotation;

you could also use:

thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).transform.rotation + value;

This will add the layer’s own rotation so you can have some variation

[Darby Edelen]

Try this:


l = thisComp.layer("circle 3");
l.toWorld(l.anchorPoint);

Darby Edelen

[Darby Edelen]

Good God! Is Filip back?!

Welcome back Filip 🙂

Darby Edelen

[Filip Vandueren]

That made my day/night 😉

[Lukasz Pason]

Thanks guys! I ended up doing the easy thing… Pre-Compose. Rotate. =)