[Oleg Pirogov]

@Dave Moore here you go:
https://f1.creativecow.net/13411/converted-aep

[Oleg Pirogov]

It breaks at 91 rotations + 8 degrees i.e. at 32768. After that value it skips to -32768 and stays there.
Apparently, this corresponds to 32767 – a maximum value for short integer type variables. No idea, why.
Seems to be a bug.

[Oleg Pirogov]

Quick question: why not the other way around? Converting single text layer to shapes will get you a shape layer with neat sub-layers for each character which you can transfer to separate layers, if you wish.

[Oleg Pirogov]

Opt 1 has too many flaws.
Opt 2 had a clear mistype in line 3, I had to change “NULL1” to “COMPX”:

L1 = comp("COMPX").layer("Null 2");
P1 = L1.toWorld(L1.anchorPoint);
L2 = thisComp.layer("COMPX");
L2.toWorld(P1)

After that, the null follows the leg:


That’s what you are looking for, right?

[Oleg Pirogov]

Won’t changing the last line to
“if(thisComp.layer(“Control Panel”).effect(“NUMBER OF LINES 1, 2 or 3”)(“Slider”) == 3) valueAtTime(t) else 0;”
get you what you want?

[Oleg Pirogov]

Your 2. expression should work fine as far as I understand your set up. Do you mind sharing the project file?

[Oleg Pirogov]

This gives an absolute scale (in %) of parented layer:
L=thisComp.layer("CHILD_LAYER");
length(L.toWorld([1,0,0])-L.toWorld([0,0,0]))*100;

[Oleg Pirogov]

Either I didn’t get it right, or this should work:
thisComp.name.split("_")[1].replace(" ", "\n")

[Oleg Pirogov]

There is a number of things that can cause this. A detailed description with screenshots would help a lot and providing the project file would be perfect.

[Oleg Pirogov]

I did. You’re right, it’s not perfect. Though by stepping back from extreme alpha curve values, some relatively nice in-between result can be obtained: