Thanks so much for the info/advice and the expression. I'm going to take a crack at integrating this into my comp soon. Since a pesky deadline was forcing my hand, I just created two semi-transparent white 3D layers separated in z space to do a quick and dirty fog. Works for now, but I can see how t...

So what I'm hoping to achieve here is a simple way to automatically lighten background 3d layers based on their distance from the 3D after effects camera. My goal is to have a way to mimic something like this photo. http://www.walkthroughindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Aravali-Mountain-Ranges.j...

Answered my own question. I was overthinking it. I'd still like to know how to tie this to a checkbox instead but if i just use a slider and pick a value of 1 it selects the "Motion Preview" option, and if I go to 2 or above it is "Full Render". Simple enough and the code is just...

Hi guys. I've tried an if else statement but I'm a noob and have no clue what I'm doing here. Problem I have multiple layers in my comp using the Particular effect. All layers have their emitters parented to a null for ease of animating. Due to render issues I need to often times set the render mode...

sorry...it wouldn't take an aep file. zip is here now.

NICE!

The only issue I have now is that the rotation pops for some reason right before it rests. I've attached my AEP file, and I'm using version CS3.

Can you take a look?

As always, I'm so grateful for the help you're providing.

Thanks for the quick reply, and explanations. That helps. I tried your updated code for the orientation. The expression you added does not affect the Y-axis rotation like I expected. For some reason the third value is what is controlling the spin, and adding your expression controls what I assume is...

this is genius. So close to perfect for what I need, and I greatly appreciate it. I have a couple of questions: 1) what does the variable "ks" do exactly? 2) If I wanted the "Card" layer to not spin around on the y-axis so much, what would I do? I see that you have an expression ...

Hi guys. I'm pretty green on scripting and I'm reaching out to you for ideas/help. In brief this is what I'm trying to create. Imagine leaves or ornaments on a tree that sway back and fourth based on the rotation of the tree trunk. I want to basically animate a null (the trunk of the tree) and when ...

All I am trying to do is connect a marker to a keyframe for any given layer. I basically want to label a keyframe and the only solution I can think of is to connect a marker (with a comment) to the keyframe. The reason for this is that I'm using time remapping on a nested comp to set a 2d character'...