Good Parents

Control parenting with keyframes. Finally. Now with 3D layers support!
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Description
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"Where has this been all my life?"

- (c) Every motion designer

"Now in 3D!"

- (c) Awesome guys

Good Parents finally gives you the freedom to link and unlink a layer or a group of layers to one or multiple objects!

Switch parents freely

ONOFF Parenting

3d

Works with 3D layers, Element 3D and Raytraced Shapes

Using Good Parents is super easy

Select your layers and how many parents you want
(don't worry, you can update the number of parents later)

Super simple interface

CustmEffect

The Good Parents effect lets you easily assign and keyframe the parenting

Use keyframes to control parenting like any other property

Keyframes

Tutorial:

Limitations, even Good Parents have some issues!

  • You can't copy Good Parents control from one layer to another: it simply won't work, sorry
  • If you copy layers with Good Parents controls from one composition to another, you will need to reset the Parent layers.
  • Oh and non-uniform scale may work incorrectly. I know, the humanity! Well, unfortunately it is an After Effects bug.

Discussions

Want to talk about it?

Head over to r/aescripts to chat with fellow users about this product.

Need Support?

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Version History

1.4.4 -

-Fix for the licensing library

1.4.3 -

-Fixed issue on macOS 13 and AE23

1.4.2 -

-bodymovin compatibility update

1.4.1 -

-AE 2020 compatibility update

1.4 -

-MacOS Catalina support
-Minor bugs fixed

1.3.1 -

-Fixed double window issue

1.3 -

-Various code improvements
-New UI

1.2 -

-Get and Set features added
-Updated UI
-Rotation fix for “Orient along Path”
-Fixed preparent layer behavior

1.1 -

-3D Layers support

1.0.6 -

-Even more speed when working with large compositions.

1.0.5 -

-Workflow speed up

1.0 -

-Initial release

Compatibility

After Effects

2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6, CS5.5