[Joao Monteiro]

A work around would be duplicating my layer and precomping it leaving the time-remap on the precomp and not on the precomped footage. This way the frame code would freeze in the same places as the hold keyframes.

But I’m sure there must be a simple way as I have many characters. I hope!

Thanks

[Joao Monteiro]

You Rock!! Thanks so much.
Just noticed I had a expression mistake “nameSplitLength -1” instead of “nameSplit.length -1”
This will help me a lot, thanks again.

Just to recap and try to learn:

split(“_”) – breaks a text source in 2 arrays when it sees this character “_”.

so, (Character_) is array [0] and (CharacterNumb) is [1].

(nameSplit.length -1 ) means deleting the hole half that comes after (“_”) or just one number with one digit?

Thanks once again.
Joao

[Joao Monteiro]

Hi Miguel,

Thanks a lot for looking at it.
It seems so well explained which is making me feel dumber! As I still didn’t get it to work properly.
Here is a scene file of a test scene.

9976_expressionstest.aep.zip

At the moment I’ve linked the opacity of a solid to slider control inside a null (“EXPRESSIONS”). These are inside a comp called (“Character_1”). Now on the comp (“Character_1”) on the main level I’ve copied the Slider control from the precomp and linked the slider inside the precomp to the slider on the comp.

So I control it from the main comp. So far so good. But at the moment using your help I’ve
typed:

nameSplit = thisComp.name.split(“_”);
characterNum = nameSplit[nameSplitLength -1];
selfComp = “Character_” + characterNum;
comp(“*Main”).layer(selfComp).effect(“Opacity Slider”)(“Slider”);

on my Opacity Slider on the precomp, to link it to the nested precomp but not being able to make it work.

Sorry for all this rambling, if you check the AE file you will get it straightaway.

9976_expressionstest.aep.zip

[Joao Monteiro]

Hi Victor,

4 years later in case you still figuring it out.

I believe you were getting that error as you were trying to parent a 3D layer to a 2D layer.
That’s why you were getting the error.

Hope it still helps.
Cheers
JoaoMonteiro

https://www.joaomonteiro.tv

[Joao Monteiro]

Just had the same problem today working at my client’s office with c4d r12 and thought to share how to solve the problem.

When you use a tracer which is tracing a cloner object you might not see the sweep nurbs on the picture viewer but you will see it on the editor viewer when you render it. This might be caused because you are rendering instances.
Once you deactivate it it works fine.

No need to bake your animation or render the whole scene.

Hope this helps.

Joao Monteiro
https://www.joaomonteiro.tv

[Joao Monteiro]

Hi,
Hope you are good.

Any finidngs on this issue?

I’m having the same problem just before a deadline.

I’m using particular and 3D layers, the project is still not very heavy, but keeps craching while “invoking classic 3d”. I have Adobe CS6 with the latest update. 11.0.4

Thanks a lot
Joao

[Joao Monteiro]

Thanks Dan.
It worked perfectly.
Thank you.
I was trying value+(wiggle(2,5))
which wasn’t working.
J

[Joao Monteiro]

When I say Add I mean combine.

[Joao Monteiro]

Or should I use valueAttime() ??
Thanks a lot.
Joao

[Joao Monteiro]

This also makes sense to me.
I’ve a tiny different problem this time.

Imagine I have an illustrator document with 50 layers, called V01.
I’ve imported into AE as a composition with cropped layers. I show some graphics to the client.
I get feedback from the client and need to run an update on my AI file. I create V02 with some updated graphics.
Now I want to update my layers in AE without having to replace all my layers individually.
Also I want to keep the name as V02 and not fake it is called V01.
(The layer names in AI remain exactly the same, so it won’t be any missing links).

Thanks
Joao