[Markus Stone]

Hmm – reckon I might have found me the problem.

I restored Premiere to version 14.0.0 and it works much better.

Cheers

Markus

[Markus Stone]

I managed to figure out a solution, so I thought I’d update the post in case anyone else is looking to do something similar.

Take the layer with the 3D stroke and set it’s Z-depth to = the radius of the sphere in the Orb plugin.

That gets you close.

Make the masks in the stroke layer, with one end always starting on the centre of the layer so that when you apply transforms in the plugin at least one point is in the right place.

Use transforms within 3D stroke to find the correct orientation for your paths. You can adjust the paths themselves, but you’ll only really be able to control the length of the line that way.

Using a camera orbit to check the contact on the limb of the sphere works well too.

Thats it.

Hope it helps someone else.

Markus

[Markus Stone]

Thanks for the reply Antoine – I’ve got both, but I recently uninstalled the Autokroma plugin as a troubleshooting measure.

Cheers
Markus

[Markus Stone]

No takers? Is this harder than it looks?

[Markus Stone]

I’m trying to do this https://youtu.be/bmPOEXVIOjc

Such that it only ever requires six layers to render the dots.

I know trapcode particular can do this, but trying to avoid spending $1000 when I feel this must be possible with expressions. Besides, I might learn something.

M

[Markus Stone]

I also tried this way, where I explicitly assign the value to thisPos and return that value. No luck.

nullPos = thisComp.layer(“Null 2”).transform.position;
thisPos = value;

if (content(“Ellipse 1”).content(“Ellipse Path 1”).size <= 0)
{
thisPos=nullPos;
}
else
{
thisPos=value;
}
thisPos;

[Markus Stone]

Sorry, Ignore my last, just saw your reply.

Muchas Gracias 🙂

[Markus Stone]

How would it look if you weren’t to use intermediate variables?

I’m just trying to figure out where I went wrong with my attempt. I think I have the syntax wrong, but everything I tried crashed and burned.

Cheers
M

[Markus Stone]

Thanks Walter,

Dan Ebberts resolved the issue in this thread https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/42354

Cheers and thanks for getting back to me.

Markus

[Markus Stone]

So, to enhance my understanding, (if you’re happy to teach a noob like me ☺) would you be happy to show me how it would look *without intermediate variables?

I have a problem with my syntax that I need to resolve, and I kinda thought the above would work.

Cheers & thanks

Markus