[Rens Wegerif]

Found it!

Create an extra comp called “// Controller” with a Text layer called // Expression.
For the source text of this text layer, apply your expression.

Ad the following expression to all the layers that need that same expression:

eval(comp("// Controller").layer("// Expression").text.sourceText.toString())

[Rens Wegerif]

Hello Walter,

Thanks for your reply. I’ll give it a shot. It’s a shame though After Effects doesn’t render comps to the disk cache or ram cache right away, since there is a lot of work memory on this machine. That would be a nice feature, wouldn’t it?

I find this hardware set-up a real challenge, it can be the bottle-neck for al of your work. Guess it will be a lot of trail and error?

Also, with AE CC, it would be nice for Adobe to create some downloadable settings on their website; just select how many cores you have, select your graphics card, memory etcetera and here you are, your settings.

[Rens Wegerif]

Hello Jake,

Do you mind telling me what that little trick was? Because when I use Dan Ebbert’s script, all the clones get the rotation delay at the same time. I guess I have to link them to the layer above them in the index or something?

Cheers

delay = 1;
t = time - delay;
L = this_comp.layer("template");
x = L.toWorldVec([1,0],t);
radiansToDegrees(Math.atan2(x[1],x[0]));