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-thisComp.rotation?
I thought this would be easy but it’s not working. I created a 50×50 stickfigure shape C and placed it in a 200×200 comp B at the top. Then i place comp B 6x in a 200×200 comp A and rotated each +60 degrees. So you get this https://www.patrickjansen.net/AE/tmp.html
but instead of having each stickfigure rotated according to the manual rotation, I tried rotating them “back” (so they’re all upright) by attempting to read in that manual rotation -> (in the subclip B rotating it “back”) by setting C rotation value to expression -thisComp.rotation but it’s not working. Result should be like this but isn’t https://www.patrickjansen.net/AE/tmp2.html
Am i missing something? is this not possible?
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2 Replies
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I’m not sure exactly what you’re trying to do but if you want the value you enter in the rotation property to carry into the expression then just put “value+” at the beginning of the expression. Another thing that might be throwing a wrench in the works is that your expression is for the comp, not the layer, which may be a problem but it’s hard to say since your goal is unclear.
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That will only work if each comp B was created by duplicating the comp (in the project bin), not the comp B layer in comp A. Each comp B needs a unique name (like “comp B1”, “comp B2”, etc.). Then you could do it with an expression like this:
-comp(“comp A”).layer(thisComp.name).transform.rotation
Dan
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