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- November 15th, 2007, 2:39 am
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: set variable via index
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9800
Re: set variable via index
Hi. I have a bunch of layers with the "circle"-effect applied on it. I have a "control"-layer with 4 defined colors. The aim is: Layer1: color1 Layer2: color2 Layer3: color3 Layer4: color4 Layer5: color1 Layer6: color2 ...(and so on) This is my lousy try, but it doesn't work: (a...
- November 15th, 2007, 2:33 am
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: Layer1 Audio Adjusts the audio levels of Layer2? But How?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8425
Re: Layer1 Audio Adjusts the audio levels of Layer2? But How
I have a composition full of classified style ads (each with a voiceover) with a music bed that runs the duration of the entire movie. I want the music bed to drop 10dB any time a voice over read shows up and rises back up 10dB when the voice over stops. Before laying down the Music bed, I can gene...
- November 15th, 2007, 2:27 am
- Forum: Script requests
- Topic: AE Puppet tool Inverse Kinematics
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7440
Why not simply maintain the relative positions using an elementary difference expression? Not sure what you're hoping to achieve, though. As soon as you add more than 2 pins, the mesh will stop to be rigid, regardless whether you retain the relative placement. It's inherent in how it's supposed to w...
- November 10th, 2007, 11:38 am
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: Calculate number of lines in paragraph text
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9188
Not really. Doing this would require to access the glyph bounding box sizes, kerning and spacing parameters which is not possible. If you know the bounding box size of each letter at a given point size, you could use the sourceRectAtTime() method and add them all together, but it would still be a gu...
- October 24th, 2007, 11:10 pm
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: Text color per letter expression help
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8178
- October 22nd, 2007, 10:31 am
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: hanging object being affected by body speed
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8213
Re: hanging object being affected by body speed
I just can't figure out how to do "in-between" in a lot of expressions. Check Dan Ebberts' site. There's a "springy connection" example somewhere which is pretty much what you need. The conditions are the same, you just need to modify it to work for rotation ratehr than position...
- October 21st, 2007, 8:16 am
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: custom eases through expressions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 32398
So that works for my situation, but out of interest still wondering if it's somehow possible to build an expression that can take speed/influence values. I know that the ease, easeIn, easeOut are hardwired and it can't be accomplished that way, but is it technically impossible for the code to figur...
- October 18th, 2007, 11:08 pm
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: custom eases through expressions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 32398
Re: custom eases through expressions
Is there anyway to replicate custom eases through expressions? For example, you can do this to animate opacity from 0 to 100 from 1 to 5 seconds. easeOut(time,1,5,0,100); But what if I wanted to put specific values for speed/influence? Anyone? Nope, ease is always hardwired. You could write a custo...
- October 8th, 2007, 10:03 am
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: Proccess and expression
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8311
Re: Proccess and expression
Hi all Does anyone the AE process or what type of expressions were used to create this great piece http://www.rmaxstudio.com/jobs/colors :) Not really too much expressions, I'd say. Perhaps some "follow the leader" stuff as on Dan Ebberts' website to get delayed animation, but mostly clas...
- October 8th, 2007, 10:00 am
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: reading another layers position - but not the expression
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8206
Re: reading another layers position - but not the expression
Is there anyway of reading another layers values that are controlled by expressions - but not the actual expression output... the keyframed values themselves? Nope. You're employing the wrong methodology. If you really need to re-use the position values, use them on a neutral layer (Null object/ in...
- September 21st, 2007, 4:36 am
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: scripts will no longer support file I/O
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18361
I have no problem with adobe adding a feature to scripting such as xml parsing...great! but they should also leave in the legacy code so us developers who have been utilizing scripts from the beginning aren't screwed. Sure, for a while this will definitely be the case but I think in the long run th...
- September 20th, 2007, 9:27 am
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: scripts will no longer support file I/O
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18361
Re: scripts will no longer support file I/O
See my answer on the AEList. Care to share with people who are not subscribed to the AE List? :wink: I think this is very pertinent to this site.. In addition to the info Jeff provided I was pointing out that in the future one probably should make good use of the XML functionalities that started to...
- September 19th, 2007, 11:16 am
- Forum: Scripts Discussion
- Topic: scripts will no longer support file I/O
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18361
Re: scripts will no longer support file I/O
just stumbled across this in the cs3 scripting guide. NOTE: The After Effects global functions for standard dialogs and file I/O are still supported in this release, but are deprecated and will not be supported in future releases. For details, see the After Effects 6.5 documentation. anybody know w...
- September 5th, 2007, 10:26 pm
- Forum: Expression Discussion
- Topic: Expressing layer startTime
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17061
Re: Expressing layer startTime
Hi. How can I create an expression on layer startTime ? I have one layer with some keyframes in the opacity transformation; I dup this and I would to change with an expression his startTime. Is it possible ? Thanks That's what .valueAtTime() is for. Apply it to whatever property you like and add an...
- September 1st, 2007, 2:35 am
- Forum: Script requests
- Topic: Does the SourceText can be linked to a text (.txt) file?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13433
Re: Does the SourceText can be linked to a text (.txt) file?
Do you think that maybe be possible to link the SourceText property of a "text layer" to read its content from a text file (.txt) No, that's not possible. All text is tored in a compound stream keyframe along with the formatting and there's no way to link it with external sources. Mylenium