[Dan Ebberts]

Just from a quick glance at the help, it sounds like you have to have all the participating layers selected. Is it possible you only have the layer with the markers selected?

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Sorry, not much useful info here.

1. I don’t know why they did it that way.

2. I don’t think you can.

3. Try this:

myLight.transform.pointOfInterest.setValue([x,y,z]);

4. Haven’t seen the problem, but I don’t think I’ve ever tried scripting Lux.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

How often do you want it to freeze? Is it periodic? If so, it might be as simple as adding something like this to the top of the expression:

posterizeTime(3);

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Well, I’m lost. What I’m picturing doesn’t make any sense. Maybe somebody else (with more imagination) can jump in and help out.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

The AE Scripting guide pretty much has everything you should need:

https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/pdfs/aftereffectscs3_scripting_guide.pdf

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

What you descibed (I think) covers layers on the camera’s z axis. What about layers that are off axis? What determines their opacity – distance from the camera, distance from the camera’s z-plane, or ?

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Sorry, you lost me. I’m sure there’s a soulution – I’m just not sure what the problem is. 🙂

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I think you’d just change the first line to this:

C =comp(“your outer comp name goes here”).activeCamera;

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Do you really mean “x amount of time”, or do you mean its opacity needs to be 100% until it reaches a certain distance from the camera and then it fades until it reaches some other distance where it would be 0%? That would be like this:

C = thisComp.activeCamera;
startFade = 500;
endFade = 1500;
d = length(toWorld(anchorPoint),C.toWorld([0,0,0]));
linear(d,startFade,endFade,100,0)

I’m not sure what it would be if you mean something else.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I’d just replace the last line with something like this:

numberOfLayers = 10;
n%(numberOfLayers +1)

Dan