Hi there, I'm trying to get some animation from a scene with dynamics into AE.
I have a cube cropping down and dangling from a string, which is using dynamics (it's kind of like a gift tag). What I'm trying to do is to have the cube replaced with different images in After Effects, so that I can re-use the rendered string several times, but have full control over the cube in AE (then I can rotate it, swap it out, etc).
I got the method from Eyedesyn's excellent tutorial (youtu.be/gYtPa43ttUM). It worked great, except the string wasn't keeping up with the cube, so under Project Settings / Dynamics / Cache, I hit Bake, which solved that.
I tried adding an External Compositing Tag to the cube, which has its anchor point at the top centre. But it doesn't give me any animation when I pull the C4D file into AE and extract 3D data. The solid in AE just sits there. Any idea how to transfer the animation of the cube dropping, bouncing around, rotating, etc into AE? I've tried baking the different objects with no luck. Is there a way to bake the position/rotation of that cube to keyframes and bring it into AE? Something with PLA? I'm not really familiar with any of that.
Here's what the animation looks like:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rnc4y1vc9kwsi8o/Dangling string-v001.mp4?dl=0
Thanks very much!