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Full disclosure, I am a hair's breadth away from throwing things at walls level of frustration over this, as it is - on it's surface - the simplest possible thing and it's going completely sideways on me.

Here's the setup:

2 quads and some text.
One quad is the BG, then the text, then the second quad which animates on X to create a reveal of the text.
One mask (a slab, as the texture on the 'reveal quad' is of an angled 'sleeve') connected with VL to move in conjunction with the reveal quad.

It's essentially a first day of XPression learning kind of setup in its simplicity. And, in the Layout, it works flawlessly, but when I test in in Sequencer, it acts as if the mask isn't even there. GAHHHH!!!

I have checked layer order, made sure the VL is set to run before the scene directors advance, made certain there we no negative keys, restarted the program... I've done everything I can think of, but

it

just

wont

work

So, apart from things I have listed out, are other possible reasons for incongruities between layout and sequencer?

Thanks in advance

We will need to see the scene to help.
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Ultimately, I just had to key the masks instead of driving them with Logic... I really don;t know why, but every time I would quit and re-launch XPression, the logic for that move was broken, I could rebuild it and it would work in layout, but never in sequencer, quit-relaunch and it wouldn't work at all, Keying it separately solved it - but I am still perplexed as to why
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I'd still like to see the sample scene if it wasn't working correctly. It may be a bug that we should resolve (or if it's not a bug, I could explain why it doesn't work as you expected).
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Copy that, I'll prep an example and get it to you in the AM. Thanks as always
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