[Mark Wilde]

Thanks for your feedback Walter.

I’ve actually started having a play around with this and it seems to be going ok so far. Only issue is the render time. Gets there in the end but I’ve only just started and already it’s pretty slow!

I’m working on an imac (3.3GHz i5) 24GB RAM AMD Radeon R9 2048 MB graphucs card.

I’m guessing this is not powerful enough for some heavyweight 3d rendering?

Also do you know if there are any resources where you can buy stock ready rendered household 3D objects? Houseplants etc and that kind of thing?

[Mark Wilde]

Thanks for your replies to this, I had sorted it using a work around but I am a newby, so need to understand for future use.

Here’s what i have>

So Comp 1 > inside comp 1 links to Illustrator File A
So Comp 2 (duplicate of Comp 1) > links to Illustrator File A (as above)
So Comp 3 (duplicate of Comp 1) > links to Illustrator File A (as above)

If I change Illustator File A it changes in all comps (obviously)

But, if I nested Illustrator File A within another comp would this have solved the problem?

[Mark Wilde]

thanks Tomas

1. If you are replacing actual .ai file/part (which is in the projects panel). In such act, you are replacing the single item, which is referenced in all duplicated comps. Meaning, all comps are pointing to that X item, and its replacement would cause change in all layers.

This is exactly what’s happening, yet I have duplicated within the project panel which I thought was the correct way.

I guess I somehow need to duplicate the .AI illustration and relink this to the duplicated comp, so I have a duplicate of both the comp and the artwork contained within the comp.

How is the comp file linking to the .AI artwork? How can I change this?

[Mark Wilde]

I’m very much a newbie, but I have been doing something similar and I’ve been using text animators to achieve this.

• Add a text animator for ‘scale’.
• Set your scale property at 120% or whatever.
• Add 2 keyframes on the ‘offset’ layer . The offset should start at -100% on first keyframe and the last keyframe should be +100%. The range selector should start at 0% and end at 100%
• Then set the Anchor point group to ‘Word’ (this way you won’t have to mess around with scaling the tracking also) This is under ‘More options’.
• Use a ‘smooth’ property under ‘advanced’ (rather than ramp up or square) . ‘Based on’ should be words rather than characters.

You might need to tweak a few things and mess around with the scale, but I think that is everything, you should be good to go…