[Russell Wyner]

I found a problem to be that Adobe Media Encoder cannot render Element 3D if the layer it is applied to has certain other effects applied to it as well. The most troubling part of this is that a secondary instance of Element3d counts as one of these problem effects. If you are wanting to use multiple instances of Element3D on one layer, rendered in Unified mode, in order to animate more than 5 separate 3d objects, you cannot render this out straight through Adobe Media Encoder. This ruins my workflow if I want to connect Essential graphics to a Premiere project, or if I just don’t want to waste time rendering from After Effects.

For you, I would check if you have another effect applied to your Element 3d layer, even an effect you may have turned off. If so, delete it from the layer and see if that fixes it.

[Russell Wyner]

Actually, a simpler code worked for me. I just added the null position to the parent position…

For the X,Y transorm position of the 3D stroke…

controller = thisComp.layer("Null Layer");
controllerPos = controller.position;
parPos = controller.parent.position;
x = controllerPos[0] + parPos[0];
y = controllerPos[1] + parPos[1];
[x,y];

And for the Z transform position of the 3D stroke…

controller = thisComp.layer("Null Layer");
controllerPos = controller.position;
parPos = controller.parent.position;
controllerPos[2] + parPos[2];

[Russell Wyner]

Is that download link available somewhere? I can’t seem to implement the code.

[Russell Wyner]

[Dave LaRonde] “I don’t know of a script that would do it, and that’s what it would take. You’d have to do it using the method you fear.”

Thank you, Dave. And thank you for answering nearly every post on this website. Your answers have helped me many times. You are the king of Cow!