• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  ease animation via expressions

  Posted by Jonathan Reyes on May 23, 2011 at 4:50 pm

  I’m trying to set up an after effects template where an artist can plug in a number via set expression controls and have the program automatically animate the attribute for them. for example, if they plug in the number 25, the program will scale an object from 0 to 25 over a set amount of time. Unfortunately i haven’t gotten far. I was trying to reverse engineer this expression:

  eg = Math.floor(time/(moveTime+holdTime));
  t = time % (moveTime+holdTime);
  value + delta*seg + ease(t,holdTime,holdTime+moveTime,0,delta)

  but can’t figure out it animates the delta and how to stop it from continuing. any help would be appreciated, thanks!

  Jonathan Reyes replied 14 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  May 23, 2011 at 6:18 pm

  The expression you’re looking at doesn’t seem to match your description of what you’re trying to do. You want the user to be able to enter a value into a slider control and have the expression scale the layer from 0 to the entered value over some period of time, correct? How will you specify the duration and the start time of the animation?

  Here’s a simple example that does a 1-second scale up (starting at the layer’s In Point) from 0% to the value entered into the slider:

  s = effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);
  dur = 1; // 1 second
  ease(time,inPoint,inPoint+dur,[0,0],[s,s])

  Dan
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  Jonathan Reyes

  May 23, 2011 at 6:30 pm

  Thanks Dan! that really helps, and now i finally get how to use that function

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