Bassel - Can't seem to figure out Parent Across Comps

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Bassel - Can't seem to figure out Parent Across Comps

Post by dreyeshhh » Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:42 am

I've read this https://rainbox-dev.github.io/DuAEF_Dui ... positions/ and I feel like I'm doing something wrong.

I'm trying to parent a camera in a precomp to the comp the precomp belongs to. Unfortunately, I'm not getting a locator null in the child's precomp. Only the parent's precomp creates a locator null.

I'm on Mojave Mac OS, AE 2019, Bassel 16.0.11

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Re: Bassel - Can't seem to figure out Parent Across Comps

Post by Duduf » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:11 pm

This seems to be a bug.

I don't think I have tested it with camera, maybe not even with 3D Layers. I'm adding this in my todo list and fix this for the next version

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Re: Bassel - Can't seem to figure out Parent Across Comps

Post by Duduf » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:11 pm

In the meantime, you may try to parent the camera to a null object, and use the tool on the null object instead of the camera itself!

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Re: Bassel - Can't seem to figure out Parent Across Comps

Post by dreyeshhh » Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:54 pm

Ah! Good to know I wasn't just misunderstanding the instructions. Parenting the camera to a null object works! Thanks so much!

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Re: Bassel - Can't seem to figure out Parent Across Comps

Post by dreyeshhh » Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:01 pm

Also, just as an fyi, when parenting layers across comps, I had to manually turn on the 3D toggle for both locators before they could move in 3D

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Re: Bassel - Can't seem to figure out Parent Across Comps

Post by Duduf » Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:04 pm

ok, trhanks for the feedback, I'll fix this!

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