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  • Spline Wrap and compositing tag

    Posted by Gon Perdigao on April 17, 2009 at 11:51 am

    Hithere i have a spline wrap and i want to export the animation to after effects, but when i put a compositing tag, i have a still null, not with the movement that i made, how can i export the animation of the spline wrap to after effects?
    Here is the project https://www.sendspace.com/file/q20ej1

    Thanks a lot

    Josh Johnson replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Adam Trachtenberg

    April 17, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    You’ll have use a little Xpresso to get the coordinates of the points that are being deformed by the spline wrap object. Here’s an example: https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/spline_wrap_AMT.c4d

    What this does is get the position of the deformed point, attaches a null to that point, and assigns the external compositing tag to that null.

    I chose a point on the leading edge of the cube, but you can pick any point you want by opening the xpresso editor, clicking on the point node, and entering a different point index number.

    To figure out the index number of a point, go into points mode, select the point, and look in the structure mananager (set to points mode) for the point that’s highlighted.

  • Gon Perdigao

    April 17, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    but i want to do is, parent an object in after effects to the point of spline wrap.
    How can i do that?

  • Adam Trachtenberg

    April 18, 2009 at 4:15 am

    Um, parent it to the null with the external compositing tag.

  • Josh Johnson

    May 15, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    This is GREAT! THANKS!

    SPLINE WRAP to AFTER EFFECTS solution!

    yay!

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