[Shane Sutton]

HI I was wondering if you ever found a solution to attaching a null object to a point on a shape layer.

I have a shape layer which I would like to animaite growing. an example would be a flower stem growing. I would like to attach the flower head to the top point of my shape layer. So, as the plant/flower grow’s the head can be also precomped and animated and attached to the same null object.
thankfully im not making flowers grow but I am playing with some robots.

any help or links is greatly appreciated.
thanks.

[Shane Sutton]

ahhh yeh,.. should of thought of that.

thanks a mill.
Best
shane.

[Shane Sutton]

hi hi

I just found this while looking for something else but it helped me a great deal with another project.

I had a question though. I have all my cogs, chains and wheels on one layer. but I dont know the expression to piont to the path name within my layer. Several paths are on one layer (as your suggestion in this thred – thought id try give it a go).
Is there a simple script for this or am I way off the mark. I’m new to scripting but trying to get a handle on it.

My back wheel is driving my wheels. The script for my back cog is:

r=thisComp.Layer(“Back wheel”).transform.rotation; circ=Math.PI*142; value + ((r/360)*circ);

The expression will not work as I think it’s pointing to the layer and not the PATH within the layer.

I thought it would work by changing:
r=thiscomp.layer
to: r=thisLayer
but I had no luck

Any ideas or did anyone ever get this to work?
Help is greatly appreciated. thanks a mill.
shane.