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  • Transform a 3D Motion Path?

    Posted by Scottieb on December 1, 2006 at 5:08 pm

    This should be easy, I think, but my brain is not co-operating today…

    Basically, I have a logo bug that ‘swoops’ onto the frame using a 3D motion path and rotation. It comes from the upper right off-screen, and swoops into place at the upper right of the screen. The client would like to see the logo on the bottom left. Rather than reanimate, is there anything I can do to my motion path to have it work exactly the same way, but in the opposite direction, so that it swoops from offscreen lower left to its position in the bottom left corner of the screen? I knwo I could reanimate, but it seems to me there should be a simpler way to make this happen. Thanks,

    Scott

    Dan Ebberts
    replied 19 years, 5 months ago
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  • Dan Ebberts

    December 1, 2006 at 5:29 pm

    Try this position expression:

    upperRight = [thisComp.width, 0 ,0];
    lowerLeft = [0, thisComp.height, 0];
    v = lowerLeft – (value – upperRight);
    [v[0], v[1], value[2]]

    Dan

  • Scottieb

    December 1, 2006 at 5:32 pm

    Thanks Dan – that is close, but not quite right – maybe because of the y-rotation which is also occurring?

  • Dan Ebberts

    December 1, 2006 at 6:14 pm

    Probably. Try adding this expression for y rotation:

    -value

    Dan

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