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  • use 3D point control in a layer containing keyframes

    Posted by Luis Florez on May 5, 2016 at 2:26 am

    I have an animation of a 3d text from down to up. this is done with, obviously two keyframes. I have that layer linked by expressions to a 3D point control. what I am looking for is to be able to move any of dimension in the 3D point control so the text changes its position but I want it to keep the animation from down to up. at this point, the 3D point control does what it suppose to do, but the keyframes do not do anything. it seems the keyframe info is lost when linked to a control.
    Is there a way to do this by using expressions?

    thanks in advance for any help!

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    Dan Ebberts replied 10 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Dan Ebberts

    May 5, 2016 at 3:22 am

    Probably like this:

    value + effect(“3D Point Control”)(“3D Point”)

    Dan

  • Luis Florez

    May 6, 2016 at 2:27 am

    HI thanks for your answer. It is incredible how you can give such an answer in fast time an so accurately. it does exactly what I wanted it to do.
    what can i do to be like you?

    thanks once again.

    amazing

    Live your life with passion

  • Luis Florez

    May 6, 2016 at 2:53 am

    I have another question though. Is there a way of locking the “z” parameter in the 3D Point Control via expressions.? I mean I dont want it to be moved.
    thanks in advance.

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  • Dan Ebberts

    May 6, 2016 at 3:07 am

    You’d have to specify the z value, like this:

    z = 0;
    [value[0],value[1],z]

    Dan

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