[Dan Fredley]

Or as Dan Ebberts wrote in a previous post:

L1 = thisComp.layer("Layer 1");
L2 = thisComp.layer("Layer 2");
p1 = L1.toWorld(L1.anchorPoint);
p2 = L2.toWorld(L2.anchorPoint);
delta = p2 - p1;
radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(delta[1],delta[0]));

Dan Fredley

[Dan Fredley]

I did some research on how to find an angle between two points. This works well.

radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(transform.position[1]-thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 1").transform.position[1], transform.position[0]-thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 1").transform.position[0]))

Dan Fredley

[Dan Fredley]

I set keyframes as you explained and it worked fine for me.

Would you be able to nest the comp and just use time remapping?

Dan Fredley

[Dan Fredley]

That worked great–thanks.

[Dan Fredley]

Here’s a link to the HTML files from the Maxon website.

https://http.maxon.net/pub/r115/doc/ENGLISH_HELP_11.530_20100414.zip

Dan Fredley

[Dan Fredley]

I’m new to Cinema 4D myself, but I think you can set keyframes for the “Visible in Renderer” command in the Attribute Manager > Basic tab. I’m not sure if that’s the effect you’re going for or not or if that’s even the best way, but just an idea.

Dan Fredley

[Dan Fredley]

The alpha channel worked great. Now the client wants to give the spline a 3D look–right now it’s only 2D with the spline and extrude nurbs. Is there an easy way to add a slight z-dimension to it?

Dan Fredley

[Dan Fredley]

Nevermind–the corner pin layer was accidentally set to be a 3D layer. Once I turned it to 2D it worked again.

Dan Fredley

[Dan Fredley]

It worked until I tried to move the target layers in z-space–the expression no longer keeps the corner pin to the target layer. I tried different values in the z property to no avail.

Dan Fredley

[Dan Fredley]

That worked perfectly of course–thanks Dan. I also modified it to figure out the lower right corner of the target layer(for any of those interested):

target=thisComp.layer("UL");
fromComp(target.toComp([target.width,target.height,0]))

Dan Fredley