I have a psd file/layer (a flower) in a 3d composition, it has a motion path on it (position time line) with roaming key frames (not sure if thats the correct term?)
As it travels along the motion path, i want the flower to scale down, and ive done this with key frames on the scale time line, but as it scales down, it is also scaling down my motion path? Any ideas why? I want the motion path to stay the same size constantly.
I know that sometimes with key frames, you get different results depending on which order you apply different values etc. But ive tried adding my scale values before i ad my motion path, but with the same result, a scaling motion path.
Re: Motion path scaling? by david bogie on Jul 21, 2008 at 4:07:35 pm
[Ian Collister]"As it travels along the motion path, i want the flower to scale down, and ive done this with key frames on the scale time line, but as it scales down, it is also scaling down my motion path? Any ideas why? I want the motion path to stay the same size constantly. "
Your flower layer needs to be precomposed and then attached to the layer that contains the motion path.
You might want to spend some time exploring the use of null objects and parenting to make this task much easier.
bogiesan
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Re: Motion path scaling? by Ian Collister on Aug 2, 2008 at 6:17:50 pm
Finally realised the path wasnt scaling, it was that AE wasnt showing all of it, it was having trouble previewing all of the path and thus looked like it had been scaled.
