shortcut for scale when repositioning in 3d space

[Richard Frazer]

Im not aware of any quick way of doing this. I often have to push things further back in Z-space and then manually scale them to compensate. I guess you could write an Expression that scales them in relation to distance from the camera, but it would involve some maths with the angle of the camera lens that I cant quite work out.

[Anita Sancha]

Thanks..

I seem to have to do this a lot, partly because I don’t plan the project very much and dump the layers in. In this case its a little theater stage and pushing the scenery around is the problem. If I knew more maths I could sit there with a calculator I suppose. I just thought there would be a shortcut like holding down the shift key and then moving back in space. Oh well…

Thanks anyway

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk

[Steve Roberts]

Yep, a shortcut like that would be nice. Did you try the AE Expressions COW?

Or you could copy the original object, then move the copy and scale it up until it matches the size of the original. Then delete the original.

[Stuart Elith]

Here’s a script that helps with this… not sure if it’s worth the effort when you’re just playing with one layer (you need to run a script, adjust, then run another script to finish the step) but it does what you want 🙂

[Steve Roberts]

Sorry, Stuart … I don’t see the script …?