[Isaac Borjas]

well that kinda weird cuz i try that way and even fixing it the way you told me and still not working, by the way my mistake that a effect X Rotation not a Layer name, The ” sliderControlValue ” and ” slidervalue2″ are goin to be linked to a 2 different Slider Control indeed.

well the code i wrote in the first post, is just base in a different language which i have knowledge and some of the code i have wrote so far have worked pretty well except with this one.

but i guess the real question will be :
– Are Variables in AE Persistent?
– Are Variables in AE store data so can be use later? a Sample will be something similar like i wanna do :
move=0;
if Rx >= SliderControlValue {move=1;}
else if Rx <= -SliderControlValue {move=0;}

Meaning that the value of ” move ” is store and can be use later for different purposes?

[Isaac Borjas]

Hi Dan,
nop that really it not it, i try it that way too always getting an error, but i’m sure is cuz that way wasn’t meant for After Effects, so that why i’m looking for help on some sort of Translation of that code into After Effects expressions.

[Isaac Borjas]

Another thing you can do is the follow it may do what you are looking for and is just to put the Optical Flare Layer (Light only) below the Element 3D layer that way the light will be behind the red sphere and create another layer or duplicate the Optical Flare one and put it above the Element Layer just with the rest of the parts a.k.a Flares and others flare stuff. well just a quick fix that just cross my mind.

[Isaac Borjas]

Glad it working for you and You’re Welcome

[Isaac Borjas]

well that’s weird if you can import the *.aec file created by C4D you should have that Export to C4D in ” File > Export > CINEMA 4D Exporter…

Remember this is just if you want to use AE Data in C4D, if you want to use the *.aec you just need to Drag & Drop that file in After Effects or just doble click and load the file.

[Isaac Borjas]

i have used Cinema 4D with after effects and i haven’t had any sort of these problems, i recomend you to go to the Maxon website and download the plugin from there even if it say CS5 or CS5.5 it will work with CS6 cuz the 3 of then are 64bits (Tested and does work), other than that i really don’t know what the issue can be

[Isaac Borjas]

or another way could be PreComposing the Video/Image layer, Don’t know have many affect on that video or if is slipt between comps but having the Video precomposing and work on the precomp instead will be better so at the end if you want to change that video just go inside the Video Precomp and change it and all the effects will be on the other Precomps.

P.S. even if you keying something out will do too… just my 2 cents

[Isaac Borjas]

i’m not expert on this topics but i have done some test for my self using both C4D and AE in this past days and the integration between both is very powerfull….sorry when a little of topic here,

but have you try create a null with the same light animation and try using that null in AE and see if is using the right path?

and btw you can change the Null to light once your inside AE too, if the animation is right, just a thought.

[Isaac Borjas]

i’m not sure what form the Spaceship have but you can Recreate one using the Shatter Effect and give the Spaceship a more 3D look (just need to tweak a little bit the setting to not make it shatter will keyframes are in place and inside the Shatter effect you can rotate the object/spaceship very easly just using the camera setting inside the effect..

[Isaac Borjas]

another 2 ways to create a simple 3d Text is :

1- using the “Shatter” fx you will have full control of the 3D tex.

2- create the text and make it 3D then go to position and make and expression, write the follow : value+[0,0,index]; , now with that done just duplicate the TEXT layer till you have the extrusion needed to create an 3D illusion of the text.

hope that help.