[Marissa Joyner]

gosh darnit I knew it was something small, lol!

Thank you Dan!!!!!

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https://www.fluxvfx.com/

[Marissa Joyner]

Hi Dan,
What if I wanted to define the colors in the palette arrays with a few color pickers instead of numerical values? I tried this:
x=effect("Color Control")("Color");
x2=rgbToHsl(x);
y=effect("Color Control 2")("Color");
y2=rgbToHsl(y);
palette = [x2[0], x2[1], x2[2], x2[3]],[y2[0], y2[1], y2[2], y2[3]];
idx = (textIndex-1)%palette.length;
palette[idx]

I don’t get an error but the color reverts to the original text color (black), I know I’m missing a piece here…

Thanks!
Marissa

x=effect("Color Control")("Color");
x2=rgbToHsl(x);
y=effect("Color Control 2")("Color");
y2=rgbToHsl(y);
palette = [x2[0], x2[1], x2[2], x2[3]],[y2[0], y2[1], y2[2], y2[3]];
idx = (textIndex-1)%palette.length;
palette[idx]

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https://www.fluxvfx.com/

[Marissa Joyner]

Yeah that’s gonna be…tricky.
I want to vary the timing of the X position keyframes too so nailing down the time when rotation reaches 0 seems like a bit too much calculating for this project. Oh well. Overshoot is one of those things in this project that would be nice to have but not completely necessary.
I appreciate your quick response Dan!

After Effects template maniac
https://www.fluxvfx.com/

[Marissa Joyner]

Thank you!!

After Effects template maniac
https://www.fluxvfx.com/

[Marissa Joyner]

There’s a way to ask the Author of the template directly by leaving a comment or contacting them via their profile page. Most Authors are responsive to pre-sales questions (I know I am!). As it’s been already said, you do need to be aware of the project’s structure- ie pre-comps/nested comps when changing anything in the project.
Good Luck!

[Marissa Joyner]

**updating my post because I found a solution

Save your Illustrator file as .eps version CS5. I don’t know exactly why but fixed the unnecessary paths issue.

Hope it works for you!
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The exact same thing is happening to me too. I’m pretty sure it’s a bug because this operation was working fine just a few weeks ago. Now I have 2 big projects that are nothing but AI files that I need to convert to shape layers and I’m going insane! I have actually been twirling twirling twirling down to delete the unnecesary groups inside each group that’s inside each shape layer.

I just submitted a bug report, I suggest you do the same:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform