[Nico Jones]

Ah ok, thanks. I can re-open the scene now. Sadly, the approach hasn’t made any difference.

I basically need a spaceship to be massive, and be a reasonable distance away from the camera. Here’s a project file that demonstrates the problem. It contains a scene that I’ve already altered (from 10.000 to 100,000 in this case!!)

https://webfilemanager.co.uk/dsf.php?fileid=mqlqmtFD

Any ideas??

Many thanks,

Nico J BB

[Nico Jones]

Ah ok, got it. Problem though – once I’ve edited the scene file with the text editor, I can’t open it as a scene. I’m on a Mac, and it just turns it into one of those ‘nothing’ files once I save it.

Is there some sort of suffix I can apply to make Invigorator open it? The original scene file didn’t have one when I saved it…

Thanks!

Nico J BB

[Nico Jones]

Thanks, that sounds good. I’ve saved my scene and made the changes, but for the life of me can’t figure out how to re-import the scene. Doesn’t seem to mention it in the Help anywhere, and I can’t find a tab for it in the plugin!

Nico J BB

[Nico Jones]

Fan-flipping-tastic. Thanks!

Nico J BB

[Nico Jones]

How can I amend this expression so that I can apply it straight onto the position of a 3D object and have it only affect X+Y, not Z? I’m having weird issues when I try to split them…

freq = thisComp.layer(“Wiggle Control Sliders”).effect(“FREQUENCY”)(“Slider”);
amp = thisComp.layer(“Wiggle Control Sliders”).effect(“AMOUNT”)(“Slider”);

if (freq.numKeys > 0){
if (time <= freq.key(1).time || time >= freq.key(freq.numKeys).time)
wiggle(freq,amp)
else{
n = freq.nearestKey(time).index;
if (freq.key(n).time > time) n–;
f1 = freq.key(n).value;
f2 = freq.key(n+1).value;
t1 = freq.key(n).time;
t2 = freq.key(n+1).time;
w1 = wiggle(f1,amp);
w2 = wiggle(f2,amp);
linear(time,t1,t2,w1,w2);
}
}else{
wiggle(freq,amp)
}

Nico J BB

[Nico Jones]

Looks like that’s done it! Thanks so much for sticking with it guys – it’s a crucial part of a music vid I’m working on and it’s really, really helped me out.

nj

Nico J BB

[Nico Jones]

Ack. That’s not good. Are you on CS5? CS4? Thanks for having a look!

Nico J BB

[Nico Jones]

Many thanks Dan, much appreciated.

Nico J BB

[Nico Jones]

Yes that’s it…but when I use that expression it seems to lock the position to it’s wiggle, if you see what I mean?

Normally you can wiggle an object and still have it go about its business on a path…but the above method seems to not let you move the object at all, beyond its wiggle?

Nico J BB

[Nico Jones]

Thanks Edward, that sorted it instantly! Can’t believe I didn’t find that user prefs menu. I must have looked for such a menu a hundred times…

Nico J BB