[David Cabestany]

Nope, after MAR (march) it goes crazy again, I tried both the expression you so kindly provided as well as this variation, which brings back the delay I need:

dist=thisComp.layer(“months expressions”).effect(“space between months”)(“Slider”);
timeDelay=thisComp.layer(“months expressions”).effect(“time delay”)(“Slider”);

thisComp.layer(index+1).transform.position.valueAtTime(time-timeDelay)[0] + [dist,transform.position[1]];

In both cases the uneven space after MAR is present.

Best,
David.

[David Cabestany]

It makes each month slide in from the right a few frames after the previous one. I removed it from the expression to see if that was causing it but that wasn’t the case.

[David Cabestany]

Thanks, however that’s not going to work for my purposes, I’m trying to duplicate layers and depending on their position on the stack I either write index+1 or -1. If I don’t create the layer in the correct order beforehand the expression returns an error.

[David Cabestany]

That was it, thanks a lot!!!!

[David Cabestany]

This problem happened to me today running CS6 on Mountain Lion, I’m running fonts using Linotype FontExplorer X (cause I saw a thread on adobe.com that mentioned some related font issues apparently causing this).

Is there something I can do to make it work?

Best,
David.

[David Cabestany]

Yes, that was it, thanks. However even with the smallest spacing value possible I’m still getting the string of dots and not a continuous line. I guess I’m stuck with this because I don’t want the line to be thicker than it is right now.

Thanks!
David.

[David Cabestany]

It’s a specific one, but we sorted it out, there were some pdf’s linked to it, I replaced them with .ai files and all is good now.

thanks!

[David Cabestany]

I think Roland’s solution works better, having a proxy is good only if that’s the only one on your project, if you have more then you have to turn them off for final render, as far as I know you can’t leave some proxies on and some off in one project.

But again, this was very helpful, I really appreciate that you guys took the time to look into it.
Best,
D.

[David Cabestany]

Thanks guys, both solutions work great as final steps, but knowing the clients, I still need to go back and forth and tweak the animations using the original layer as reference, so I guess I will have to re-replace it again each time, it still beats doing it manually, nonetheless.

Thanks for the idea, it’s a good one.

[David Cabestany]

It’s not overly complicated, a cell phone with three textures. But I’m using oversampling, when I render directly on AE it does render but takes roughly 13 minutes for 10 seconds, I render with caps lock on, so maybe I am running out of memory. It’s just weird because I’ve used far more complex models without trouble using E3D.