Make 'points follow nulls' Nulls appear right above selected layer?

Hi I tried the recommendations on the repplies but nothing worked for me. I was trying different options and I found a possible fix, I was using vector fron illustrator so I used the "create shapes from vectors" function and I think tha messes the way After Effects recognizes the path, anyway when I got the vector to shapes it creates a "group" and inside is the path that I used, i just took the path and put it outside and deleted the group, then I apllied the "points follow nulls" and it worked perfectly, the anchor point are in the exact same position as my path points. Sorry for my bad english.

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Hi, I encountered this issue today, except the shape I'm trying to use the expression on only has 4 points.

The nulls that were created by 'Points Follow Nulls' also appeared in the wrong spot, they seem to be off by X: -35px and Y: -138px, which makes it tricky when trying to parent the nulls to other animated layers.

I'm not sure what causes it - and I've tried resetting the scale of the shape and unparenting it to no avail - but I was able to create a temporary fix.

Basically, on the shape layer, add two Slider Controls - name them OffsetX and OffsetY

Then on your shape layer's path property and change the last for loop in the expression from this:

for (var i = 0; i < getNullLayers.length; i++){ 
    if (getNullLayers != null && getNullLayers.index != thisLayer.index){ 
          origPoints = fromCompToSurface(getNullLayers.toComp(getNullLayers.anchorPoint))
    }} 

To this:

for (var i = 0; i < getNullLayers.length; i++){
      if (getNullLayers != null && getNullLayers.index != thisLayer.index){
          point = fromCompToSurface(getNullLayers.toComp(getNullLayers.anchorPoint));
          origPoints = [ point[0]+effect("OffsetX")("Slider"), point[1]+effect("OffsetY")("Slider") ];
    }} 

Now you can adjust the OffsetX and OffsetY sliders until the nulls are actually over the shape.

Obviously not perfect, there's probably an easier solution - but don't have time to keep searching for one right now.

Hope this helps,