[Bert Brown]

just hold option, click on the x rotation and type in “time” and that’ll do it (if i understand you correctly)

it’s going to be mighty slow, though. might want to add some “*10” or “*100” or something.

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[Bert Brown]

cool, thanks for the quick response. i do have cloth, so i’ll try that out.

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[Bert Brown]

holy crap, thanks for posting that link. you just made my job a million times more efficient. all these scripts are amazing.

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[Bert Brown]

this was actually just a cow podcast at the beginning of the month. you should watch them

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[Bert Brown]

this definitely helps, and i really appreciate the videos. they are actually the most helpful because it allows me to see your project and the hierarchy, which is something i’m still a little unsure of.

thanks!

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[Bert Brown]

cool, thanks dan. i’ll give this a try tomorrow and see if i can figure it all out. might have a follow up question, but i did not know about this so i will experiment.

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[Bert Brown]

i think that’s what i’m trying. is there a trick to it? do they have to be editable?

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[Bert Brown]

thanks for responding. i have actually tried both having the point control on the precomp itself and a separate null, which was above the lyaer.

i’ll try some variations, but is there any other way one might control what’s inside a comp from outside of it?

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[Bert Brown]

i have a new question. i’ve got a Point Control outside of the precomp to control moving pictures within it.

it works fine until i keyframe it. then i lose my control, nothing happens.

???

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[Bert Brown]

After some searching I realized this can be a common problem and there’s not always one solution. I had forgotten about how having effects on will break things, but I actually found things worked the way they should when I took my position expression off the camera, which I suppose makes sense, in that maybe expressions are not interpreted the same in all areas as keyframing.

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