Essential graphics & master properties - Choosing a face for a character

Question

Let's say I have dozens of different compositions of faces for my characters.

I want to be able to use the same character few different times in my comp with different faces, without duplicating it, so I considered using master properties.

I created a comp with all of the faces on top of each other, and tried controlling their opacities using master properties by creating one text layer and changing its source text to the name of face I want to use.

However - it was EXTREMELY slow!

Is there any different approach to this common problem?

Thank you

Martin_Ritter · Answer

You can do such a thing with DUIK quite nice. Have a look at DUIK connector.

Not sure what EG is capable of but if you can link a layer selector, this would be the most comfortable solution.

I would create a null, add a slider and link the slider value to the opacities of the faces. Like: MyOpacity is 100 when I'm layer 1 and slider value is 1. When I am layer 2, my opacity is 0, because the slider is set to 1.

Pseudocode:

myindex = thisLayer.index;
slider = path to slider;
if (myindex == slider){
100;
} else {
0};

The null can be placed everywhere, just place it before linking the slider to the opacities.

*Martin

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