From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
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Using XPresso to link properties: Part two
From the course: Learning Cinema 4D Lite for After Effects
Using XPresso to link properties: Part two
Now you may want to get the hand animating as well, so that the hand also changes direction, or rotates rather when you animate the right shoulder value. So, again, we can go into the value, right click on it to. Go to Expressions, set Driven Relative, which creates an expression for us. Now you'll notice, when you do that, it adds a tag to that. And if I select that tag, this is the Xpresso, the Expression tag. Notice that I'm here in the attributes manager, I get access to the basic properties for that expression. But if I want to actually alter the expression, I can also double-click on that tag and it will open up the XPresso editor, where I can view it as a kind of nood based hierarchy. So we can see it's taking the right shoulder position, and it's great to be able to see this visually. It's going to put it into Range Mapper, which takes an input and maps it to an output. And then the output's going to go to the right hand rotation position. Now, what if I want to adjust that…
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Understanding coordinates5m
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Understanding rotation2m 39s
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Timeline shortcuts3m 1s
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Basic keyframing of properties4m 31s
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Copying keyframes2m 3s
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Keyframe interpolation5m 20s
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Adjusting F-Curves5m 45s
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Holding values5m 8s
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Using XPresso to link properties: Part one4m 17s
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Using XPresso to link properties: Part two2m 27s
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Importing existing animations into CINEMA 4D Lite7m 34s
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Animating cameras in CINEMA 4D Lite4m 37s
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Animating using presets4m 32s
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