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Can you post your AEP file or at least a screenshot so we can see what you are seeing?
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The sampled color in the Solid Settings dialog matches the color under the eyedropper (#CECECE).
Perhaps the solid layer on the right that you’re giving that color doesn’t have its opacity up to 100? Or there’s some other effect applied to it?
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That’s a good tip, Juan!
In case it helps, you don’t need to choose “Pre-render” to get access to the “Import” post-render action. You can do that with any item added to the render queue, and you can even make your own output module with the post-render action set to import (or even set it as the part of the default output module if you do this all the time).
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Doing shapes like this procedurally is something that seems like it should be simple, but is actually pretty complicated.
I also built an expression-based solution, this one based on actually creating the geometry for the chevrons, point by point, almost like the LOGO language and turtle graphics.
I’ve attached the project file including the shape and a set of rigged, animatable shapes. I’d always rather help people learn than just do the work for them, so please ask questions!
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The camera controls now allow you to hold 1 for Orbit, 2 for Pan, or 3 for Dolly while dragging the left mouse button through the viewport. (I change mine to Pan, Dolly, and Orbit instead to match C4D in the Keyboard Shortcuts editor.)
To navigate with a 3-button mouse like you did before, hold the Alt key while dragging with the middle or right buttons.
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Graham’s expression was looking at height, but it sounds like you want to use width. Graham’s expression also very elegantly scaled as the width increased, but if you really want it to just click over, set the type size to 75 and try this instead:
if (thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime(time).width <= 450) { [100,100] } else { [73.33, 73.33] };It’ll work like this:
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Mocha Ae (bundled with After Effects) should also make short work of this.
You can learn more and see some tutorials here:
https://borisfx.com/products/mocha-ae-cc-mocha-for-after-effects/
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You might look into a 2D physics simulation tool like Newton:
Or a physics-aware 3D particle system like Stardust:
https://aescripts.com/stardust/
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I’d put all the data into a spreadsheet, then use a tool like CompsFromSpreadsheet to do the versioning:
https://aescripts.com/compsfromspreadsheet/
