CC particle world expression: link to title position

Question

Hi there,
All I'm simply wondering is how to link the cc particle world producer position points to the position of a title I want the particles to follow. I tried pick whipping the producer position x to the title position and the following expression (on the position x of producer in cc particle world) was created:
thisComp.layer("TEXT").transform.position[0]
This makes the particles disappear.
Any ideas as to why this is happening. In the Andrew Krammer tutorial I am following it works for him, although he is using particular.
Thanks heaps!
Brad

Answer 1

> All I'm simply wondering is how to link the cc particle world producer position points to the position of a title I want the particles to follow. I tried pick whipping the producer position x to the title position and the following expression (on the position x of producer in cc particle world) was created:
thisComp.layer("TEXT").transform.position[0]
This makes the particles disappear. <
I use PW often to track other layers. I do not use an expression, though, I just parent the emitter to the motion path or mask shape/position. I am most often outlining text objects or doing the ol' laser carving in combination with Shatter. in that case, I parent the Shatter force sphere to a null that is tracing the outline path and parent the PW emitter to the same null. Easy and direct and very cliché.
bogiesan