• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  offsetting an animation for several layers

  Posted by Shahed Naderi on June 6, 2014 at 2:35 am

  lets say I have null which is animated , I want 10 or more null repeat the same exact animation but with a bit of delay. and I dont want to set key frames to them , I need to make changes if needed to just that reference null, and I need to control the delay with an slider control.
  how is this possible ?
  I linked the properties on each null to reference null and then tried to use value.AtTime , but it dont work , I think it because the layer dont have any keyframe and actual value

  is there any work around ?

  Shahed Naderi replied 12 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  June 6, 2014 at 2:50 am

  valueAtTime() should work fine, but you need to define a delay (possibly some multiple of the layer’s index). For example

  delay = .1*index;
  thisComp.layer(“reference null”).transform.position.valueAtTime(time-delay);

  Something like that.

  Dan
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  Shahed Naderi

  June 6, 2014 at 11:14 am

  that’s working just fine , I was using valueAtTime in another row,and I should’ve use dot.

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