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  • toWorld expression stops working as expected when layer is made a child

    Posted by Riccardo Sinti on October 21, 2020 at 11:58 pm

    This is probably easy,

    I’m using the expression

    L = thisComp.layer(“POI”);
    L.toWorld(L.anchorPoint)

    on a spot light’s point of interest to follow a null “POI” which is the child of another layer.

    works fine until I make the spot light the child of another layer.

    What do I need to do to make it work?

    Thanks!

    Riccardo Sinti replied 5 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
  • 2 Replies
  • Dan Ebberts

    October 22, 2020 at 6:19 am

    Try it this way:

    L = thisComp.layer("POI");

    parent.fromWorld(L.toWorld(L.anchorPoint))

  • Riccardo Sinti

    October 22, 2020 at 2:05 pm

    Thanks Dan,

    Perfect ans as I suspected not complicated at all.

    I haven’t posted here in years and it is so great that this community and you especially are still here to help us all out. Thanks so much!

    -Ric

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