Hey! For the life of me, I can’t figure this one out with rigging or expressions.

I have a bunch of duplicated 3D layers, parented to a null and arranged in a ring around it. The null is rotating around the Y axis, and rotates down a little on the X axis as well.

I need the 3D layers to orient automatically along the world Z axis as they orbit…

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Ahhhh, thank you so much. I wasn’t aware that toComp() took another argument! That’s the ticket, it works perfectly.

Hi all, I know similar questions have been asked before, but the answers don’t seem to explain the problem I’m having.

I’ve got a comp (for clarity, we’ll call it “Precomp”) nested within a master comp (we’ll call it “Comp”). Within Precomp, I’ve got a DUIK Effector; in Comp, I’ve got a mouse cursor shape layer. I want the Effector in Precomp to…

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Hi! I’m kind of a dope when it comes to color management (and when it comes to many other things!). I was working on a project in Cinema 4D, and I had converted the scene to OCIO, using the ACES preset. The renders have all been done with this preset enabled, and saved to EXR. I really don’t need to do much correction to any of it, I just want…

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Hi Adam – well 40 and 75 don’t really relate to each other, that’s the point. I gave an arbitrary example, but I ran into a situation the other day where I was trying to rig up some automated movement so I didn’t have to keep animating something meticulously.

I had the object position keyframed, and was controlling the movement between the…

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Hi Tomas, I’m not familiar with this; can you elaborate?

I’d like to control a layer’s position relative to its starting position, using an animated slider’s valueAtTime(). I want to do a sort of custom easing on the position change. Here’s an arbitrary example:

When the slider is at 100, the position should be 0. When the slider is at 0, the position should be 100. But when the slider is at 40, the…

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