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Triggering a layer from another composition
Hello everyone,
I’m trying to trigger Jesus eyes… 🙂I’ve used the expression below in the “position” of both eyes layers and I’m controling them using a null object named “eyes_ctrl” in other composition.
The fact is that I can control them, but when I add some keyframes in “postition” of the null object, the effect just vanishes, and I lose control of the eyes. Do I need to change or renew the expression?
comp("jesus").layer("eyes_ctrl").transform.position; -
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Is the layer with the expression in a precomp nested in your “jesus” and the precomp layer doesn’t start at the beginning of the outer comp? If so, this may fix it:
C = comp(“jesus”);
L = C.layer(thisComp.name);
C.layer(“eyes_ctrl”).transform.position.valueAtTime(time+L.startTime)Dan
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Thank you!
I guess that’s not the case!Well, i’ve got:
Jesus > Olhos_Jesus > Olhos_Jesus_2The null object is inside “Jesus” comp, and the eyes are inside “Olhos_Jesus_2” comp
“Olhos_Jesus_2” is inside “Olhos_Jesus” witch is inside “Jesus”.
All of them start in the very first frame.
🙂 any help is very welcome 🙂
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Your original expression looks fine to me. Maybe try looking for something else…? There’s a lot that can go wrong when linking between comps – and a lot that can go wrong when referencing a position. Is anything parented? Any 3D layers? Try isolating what’s going wrong.
– Spencer
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Hello, now here’s what I’m trying to do (CC 2014 version)
When I add keyframes to null’s “position” I lose control of the eyes :/https://www.sendspace.com/file/ucqmhr
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Hello people.
I’ve figured out what’s wrong.
It seems that tracking with a null, the “position” of an object inside a certain comp, doesn’t work if that comp has “time remapping” activated, which was the case.I just deactivated “time remapping” an it works.
My blinking option stoped working, but I’ve found another solution for that matter.
Anyway, the main problem is solved 🙂
Thank you all.
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