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Combining Wiggle Transform with the Repeater

Combining Wiggle Transform with the Repeater - After Effects Tutorial

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Combining Wiggle Transform with the Repeater

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Now that we know how Wiggle Transform is working underneath the hood, let's apply it to our shape group that has a repeater and look at some render-order issues that also pop up with Wiggle Transform. I'll select my shape layer, apply Wiggle Transform. It's defaulting to being before the repeater. I'll twirl it open, and say let's randomize a little bit of rotation, something subtle like 30 degrees, and a little bit of scale, like maybe 40%. I'll RAM-preview, and I'll see that basically all that petals are doing the same thing together. Well, this is not Wiggle Transform's fault. This is a rendering order issue. Over here in the Timeline panel we'll see that Wiggle is happening after the shape group but before the Repeater. That means we have our single shape, we're wiggling that single shape--which looks like this--and then that wiggled shape is being repeated. That's why all the petals are doing the same thing. One wiggled petal is getting repeated. Well, what if we want each of…

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