ice shapes problems

[jamination]

I am using shapes in ICE for the 1st time so bear with me. I have created all my shapes in the shape manager then I drag and drop the shapes into an ice tree, from there I linear interpolate between the pointposition, and the point position + the shape positions, all this works fine. I then use a link/with to some controller in the viewport. All of this works fine, but when I close and reopen the file all my link withs are replaced with the arrow expression, and of course nothing works.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks
Phil

[mattmos]

Rather than using link withs, bring in the actual controller local posx or y or whatever, and use that along with a mult by scalar node affecting the input of the shape positions. You can use a clamp or rescale node to change exactly the range of the controller that drives the shape.

It has the bonus of getting rid of any fcurves in the AE that you get with link withs.

[Hirazi Blue]

Are you per chance trying to create something along the lines of Jeremie Passerins gShapeCombiner compound, that is included in his gShapeTools?