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Balakay612
Balakay612
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May 3, 2023
Question

Precomped Linear Wipe's center gets messed up when used in another comp

  • May 3, 2023
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Hi there. I made a precomp that contains several shape layers, each with a linear wipe effect set to various percentages to create a pie chart. It works great (for my needs), but when I place this precomp in another comp, the linear wipe center gets all squirrelly. (I have the Linear Wipe's center tied to a null's position.) Later, when I move my pie chart precomp to the center of the parent comp, the linear wipe's position looks right. I just can figure out what I need to do to make it behave for that intial, offset appearance. I've included a few screen grabs for reference. Thank you for any help!

 

 

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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May 4, 2023

Collapsed transformations? If so, then that's expected. Such stuff affects rendering order and transforms. You cannot use it for such scenarios and/ or would have to jig your project differently.

 

Mylenium

Balakay612
Balakay612Author
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May 3, 2023

For better clarity (maybe?), here are grabs of the entire screen, so you get a better sense of where things are:

 

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 4, 2023

You have anchor points and centers fouled up. Screenshots that just show the problem image don't help diagnose the layer/transform/effect problems. We need to see the entire UI with the modified properties of the problem layers showing. Select the problem layer, press 'uu,' and embed a screenshot so we can figure out how you have things set up.  If the comp is full of nested comps (Pre-comps), a flow chart of screenshots of the nested comps will also help.

 

If this were my problem, I would precompose the segmented circle graphic or put it all on one layer and apply Linear Wipe to the layer. 

 

I would probably just animate a single Shape Layer with a bunch of pie shapes that grow into position. You can easily start with an Illustrator File, which is great for generating Pie Charts. 

 

 

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