[Robert Müller]

Hi José,

this is some complex 3D animation which is not possible with After Effects alone. You should look into some 3D software, Blender for example is free but has a very steep learning curve

[Robert Müller]

Hi Nina, you could reduce the colors to black and white, get the dotted effect with CC Ball Action and apply the Glow effect

[Robert Müller]

Hi Steve, we need to know what you are trying to accomplish here, there is no universal if/else statement. Do you want an object moving in a diagonal path? Do you want to check if an object is inside/outside the green triangle? Should the path of the triangle be drawn?

[Robert Müller]

You can select and transform points when the path is selected in a shape layer or in a mask. For shape layer it has to be a Bezier path or be converted to a Bezier path. Just unfold the contents of the layer until you reach the one called “Path” (with a little stopwatch to the side)

[Robert Müller]

Hi Brice,

strange, these are the exact settings i used. What are your settings regarding the AI footage itself (interpret footage -> Color)? Maybe there are mismatched color settings

[Robert Müller]

Weird, I never noticed this. Anyway, here is what did the trick for me:

– Check your AI color settings (under “Edit”) and look for your RGB color space, in my case its sRGB IEC61966-2.1

– Check your project settings in AE (little rocket icon) and see what color space is used under “Color”, for me it was none. I set that to the same as in AI and now the color values match for my document.

Be sure to save your project before switching color spaces, cause I just had a hard crash after I switched the color space and then tried to convert an AI file to shapes. Might be a bug?

[Robert Müller]

I would go a different direction. I would create a big circle around the central one, give it a big stroke matching the diameter of the small outer circle I want to create and make sure the stroke has rounded caps. Then I add a trim path where the start or the end (depending on the direction I want the circle to spin) are very close, so lets say start at 0% and end at 0.1%. The resulting stroked path should appear as a circle. Now I would animate the offste of the trim path, animate the start/end property so the stroke stretches and shortens again and finally I would edit the stroke thickness so it appears to be shrinking while moving.

[Robert Müller]

Hi, I cant reproduce your errors using what I see in the screenshots. How is your text alligned? I only get something close to this using center allignment in the paragraph window

[Robert Müller]

There are a few things wrong here. First of all, you want to put the position of the null here instead of the anchorPoint, since I guess you will be using the null as your cursor. Mind that this will not work anymore if the null gets parented, then you have to use some space transformation expression like toComp or toWorld (cant remember which).

Second you are using the wrong variable in your linear. The first parameter in the linear function is the value you are referencing, in this case the alpha value which you checked for before. So you should insert “f” here instead of “a”.

a = thisComp.layer("Null 1").transform.position;
s = thisLayer;
f = s.sampleImage(a,[.1,.1])[3];
linear(f,0,1,0,100);

[Robert Müller]

Hey Nicolas, you could place your playhead in the middle of the animation, enter the graph editor and switch to value graph mode. There you can drag the values and see the result live