[Craig Wall]

oops here’s the link:

https://www.access2interactive.com/Extreme_Move1.mov

[Craig Wall]

Dan,

I assume if I wanted to auto-orient the other axis that the expression would be almost identical. I am not sure though what exactly gets tweaked.

factor = .5;
delta = toWorld(anchorPoint) – thisComp.activeCamera.toWorld([0,0,0]);
radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(delta[0],delta[2]))*factor + value*(factor – 1)

BTW…I posted this sample for you to see. I think this test does validate my opinion (though it’s still just my opinion!) I want to experiment adding .1 -3 of auto-orient bias in my other axis.

I will ultimately post some video comparisons and we can take it to the people for a panel review!

[Craig Wall]

Ron take your scenario and multiply it 20 times and you’ll get a sense of how much of a problem I had. I literally had over a dozen calls and over FOUR HOURS of hold time before my order was fulfilled. I’m not exaggerating

[Craig Wall]

This is verbatim from the adobe after effects 8 docs:

“If you have a full licensed copy of After Effects, you can set it up to work with render-only versions of After Effects called render engines. Your license entitles you to install as many copies of the render engine as you want on your network, as long as one activated copy of After Effects is installed on that network.”

https://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/help.html?content=WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79a2.html

A downside:
You cannot use a watch folder and multiple render engines to simultaneously render a single movie file. However, you can use multiple render engines to render a movie as a sequence of still-image files. You can then use a post-render action to create a single movie file from that still-image sequence. (See Use a post-render action.)

Plus the setup is extensive:
Make sure that you install all fonts, effects, and encoders (compressors) used in the project on all computers monitoring the watch folder. If a computer monitoring the watch folder can

[Craig Wall]

Huh.

Years ago you didn’t need to buy additional licenses to install render nodes.

Are you sure?

[Craig Wall]

I find that VERY useful.

I haven’t been giving back to this community as much as I’ve received from it.

If I wanted to do a tute on this …like what Aharon or Andrew Kramer do…

I know how to put it together…but is there a protocol for how it would be posted or shared with the community?

[Craig Wall]

Played around with it–that is SAAAAWEEEEEET.

You made my day.

[Craig Wall]

Wow you are scary good…and fast.

I’m curious to see if this matches my internal hype — or not.

[Craig Wall]

I intended to write cs3.

Actually I declared to myself previously–and I need to go back to my resolve: for my purposes I ‘m going to call it AE8.

[Craig Wall]

The CC plug-in doesn’t seem to let you animate into the spherical shape from a flat shape.

The only suggestion I have is third party:
https://zaxwerks.com/3dwarps/index.shtml