• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  only X position time delay from layer above it

  Posted by Vanessa Appleby on July 24, 2015 at 7:34 pm

  I’m trying to delay the position animation of several text layers in a list that are sliding in from the side of the screen. I’ve tried using several expressions I’ve found online but nothing’s working.

  This is the closest to what I need, however, I want it to ONLY effect the X position.

  thisComp.layer(index-2).transform.position.valueAtTime(time-.1)

  I tried modifying it so that it was only the X position, but no such luck. Admittedly, I have no idea what I’m doing really.

  I’ve also tried modifying Dan Ebbert’s following expression to only follow the X position, but I ran into the same problem.

  delay = 5; //number of frames to delay

  d = delay*thisComp.frameDuration*(index – 1);
  thisComp.layer(1).position.valueAtTime(time – d)

  If anyone knows how to mod these expressions so they only effect X or Y (really I just want X, but Y might be handy to have for the future), I’d be eternally grateful! Thanks in advance.

  thisComp.layer(index-2).transform.position.valueAtTime(time-.1)

  //OR//

  d = delay*thisComp.frameDuration*(index - 1);
thisComp.layer(1).position.valueAtTime(time - d)

  Vanessa Appleby replied 11 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Dan Ebberts

  July 24, 2015 at 7:57 pm

  This should work:

  
x = thisComp.layer(index-2).transform.position.valueAtTime(time-.1)[0];
[x,value[1]]

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  Vanessa Appleby

  July 24, 2015 at 8:15 pm

  You are the god of expressions! Many thanks!!

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