Uploader crashing/not showing animation

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    6 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, I’m having some problems uploading some bodymovin exports and I can’t work out where the problem is. These are animations made in AE using Joysticks n Sliders. The demo export works perfectly but when I upload to WP-Bodymovin it either freezes, or the preview shows a large blank space. I’ve tried other animations which I’ve hosted on websites and they work fine, so it’s not WP or the uploader, it must be something in the JSON file/export settings/using Joysticks n Sliders that’s doing it. They were coming out quite large files (>1MB) but even when this was reduced to around 500KB it still won’t work.

    Any suggestions?
    Thanks in advance.

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    Update, a bit more testing has confirmed that the issue issue is definitely down to Joysticks n Sliders. Is there any way to get around this? Baking the expressions makes the .json file about 9MB which completely overloads the plug in and causes it to crash before it’s even uploaded. Keeping the expressions means it uploads but won’t appear at all.

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    Update: I managed to fix this, or more I found a work around.

    Exports that use Joysticks n Sliders will normally work in and of themselves (if hidden/guide layers are turned on in the Bodymovin export settings) but when uploaded to WP Bodymovin, they somehow aren’t compatible.

    The way to get around this is to bake all of the expressions, however this will will put a keyframe on every frame and make a huge file. Delete all of the tweened frames, match up your keyframes with the Joystick/Slider keyframes, delete the Joystick/Slider layers and export without hidden layers/guides (unless you need them for something else). Works fine with WP Bodymovin.

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