Translate layer Z position to ‘Shatter’ Z position?

[Dan Ebberts]

With this position expression, a 3D layer appears to track shatter’s camera z position pretty well:

z =( thisComp.layer(“shatter layer”).effect(“Shatter”)(“Z Position”) – 2)*450;
[value[0],value[1],z]

Dan

[Darren Gardner]

That’s great, Dan! This should really help! Is there an expression that works the other way – one that’s applied to the Shatter plug-in’s Z position that follows the 3D layer’s Z position?

[Dan Ebberts]

This seems to work:

thisComp.layer(“other layer”).transform.position[2]/425 + 2;

Note – 425 is probably a better multiplier for the previous expression as well.

Dan