• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  control X and Z position

  Posted by Afshar Afshar on April 19, 2009 at 12:29 pm

  hello

  I have an expression that distributes all my layers on the x axis.
  
gap = thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
startingPos = [ 0, 240, 0 ];
//--
dispVec = [10, 0, 0];
i = index - 10;
startingPos + (i * gap * dispVec)

  now I would like to have an extra slider where I can control the
  Z position of these layers.

  but since I’m very bad at this, I can’t seem to adapt the script to also make it work for the Z axis. whenever I get it to work for Z it breaks the X. can anyone help me out with this? thank you.

  greetings

  Afshar Afshar replied 17 years, 4 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Afshar Afshar

  April 19, 2009 at 3:08 pm

  hello again

  I did some more thinkering and I think I’ve found a solution.

  gap = thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
startingPos = [ 0, 240, 0 ];
//--
dispVec = [thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("xdepth")("Slider"), 0, thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("zdepth")("Slider")];
i = index - 10;
startingPos + (i * gap * dispVec)

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