Hey, Timur! Thank you so much for this code! Yes, this is what I’ve been trying to do all day. I took this chance to start learning scripting, which seems even cooler than expressions. I already learned how to create windows and buttons, I learned how to assign functions to buttons but you’re absolutely right I would love to learn how to reference…

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Hey, Walter! Thanks for your interest, man. I’ll try to explain better. But I have to say I almost know the answer is going to be that it’s not possible, haha.

I have two templates, they display the names of the topics that are being discussed. There are many topics in a single video. We create guides to teach viewers how to play a video game.

The…

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Hello everyone!

CONTEXT:

I’m putting together a series of templates that all reference information from one composition.

That composition consists of 30 text layers where the editors are supposed to introduce a bunch of titles for that video. Then the templates reference the titles in that composition via expressions.

I don’t want to do this through…

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I am absolutely shocked nobody else seems to have this problem online. I work with a team and I send them animation templates. I use footage files(images) that normally they already have because we have these character images from a videogame we use all the time. But after effects doesn’t have a way to deal with cloned footage. Consolidate all…

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Hello! I need to create a metal rod upon which a laser is going to write a logo. I created a png sequence in After effects that reveals the logo as the laser follows a spline of the logo and appears to print it on the metal.

The upper material[see shader image attached below] is the darker metal intended for the logo, the lower material is the base…

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I am tired of trying to find answer online so I assume there are non and open this thread to hopefully find an answer and help other that are going crazy over this too.

I have a wiggle expression on a composition which is meant to be a videogame player ico, this icon goes on top on a map and I use a wiggle expression to make it move a little…

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Hello, community. I have been learning C4D for a little over a month and I have decided to start messing a little bit with animation.

I have set myself to make a GIF looping animation, for which I want a phone charger model I have created(only charger no cable. Rigid body) to fall from a height, make it seem like it’s going to fall and fit right…

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Hello Community. I am learning cinema 4D, I am a motion graphics artist in AFter effects, which I know pretty well(if that helps explain this topic with concepts I might already know from AE).

I just can’t seem to find anyone who explains what these normals are. I can sort of get the idea by context, it seems to be referring to orientation, but I…

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Hey Walter thank you so much man! Wow! This is indeed life changing! You did actually solve my problem at the end!

Thank you so much. This did not solve the initial question but it gave me ideas on how to work around some other things using essential graphics panel!

One question thought: I know you can create different instances on Premiere using Eseential Graphics, but as far as I know you can’t create “virtual isntances” within after effects itself, right? I…

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For anyone looking for an answer on how I solved my problem:
I modified my expression so that it does not address the entire name of the comp, but1 rather some parts of the name only. I did this with the ‘split’ method, which you should go study if you don’t know what I’m talking about since I will not go in depth here about it.

(great tutorial on…

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Hello. I am creating some assets that I duplicate using true comp duplicator. They are meant to be used many times in the form of a question with some options as answers. Text is going to change of course for each instance.

I have a master composition where I have some precomps for the question/option boxes. the text layers are all in the… Read more