What aspect of the Advanced 3D renderer do you need for this comp? Remember, you can specify a different 3D render engine for each composition. So, even if you need to do something like extrude text or import a 3D model in another comp, you can still set this comp to Classic 3D.

This does seem like a glitch, or at least an inconsistency.

Fortunately, changing the 3D engine on the top-level comp from “Cinema 4D” to “Classic 3D” fixed the issue. Must be a bug in how the C4D 3D engine is handling instancing.

If for whatever reason you NEED to use the C4D 3D engine. I was able to “cheat” it to make it work by throwing an…

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Hey friend,

Unfortunately there is no easy way to do what you’re saying in AE currently. It’s impossible to get the X location of a character within a string.

Fortunately, this task does become trivial if you have each word (or letter, line) on its own layer. If you need help with that, let me know, but the short version animate a slider (or use an…

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It’s hard to know without seeing your full setup but in the abstract you want to use the modulus operator (%) to “loop” the time property rather than trying to loop the expression. Check out this article from the legend himself 🙂

deltaT = 0.02;
loopTimeInSeconds = 0.5;
thisProperty.valueAtTime( time % loopTimeInSeconds - deltaT);

This will get you a…

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I saw there were no replies here so I wanted to jump in.

I may be misreading, but it’s possible you’re overcomplicating things. If you just want to keep an anchor point centered in your text layer, regardless of its settings in the character panel or position in the comp, you can use this expression on the anchor point property:

const { top, left,…

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I think this is what you’re asking for. Let me know if not.

This script will update your [first] selected property on your [first] selected layer in your active comp to say “abcd.”

(function(){
  app.beginUndoGroup("Updated selected text essential property.");

  var comp = app.project.activeItem;
  var lyr = comp.selectedLayers[0];
  var prop =…

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There’s not a silver-bullet expression you can apply to a single property to achieve this effect. Depending on how comfortable you are with expressions there are more- and less-complex ways to do it.

This might get you started:
1. On a new text layer, type the numbers 0-9 and then another 0, each on its own line.

0
1
2
...
8
9
0

2. Make a new slider on the…

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Hi,

I think your question was already solved, but just posting this here in case it prove helpful to anyone else. I ran into variations of your problem for AGES before I finally found this expression:

function customBezier(t,tMin,tMax,value1,value2,bezierPoints){if(arguments.length!==6)return value;var a=value2-value1;var b=tMax-tMin;var…

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