• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  360/ Expression + Expression pick whip not working

  Posted by Valentijn Wisseborn on March 22, 2017 at 9:27 am

  Hello,

  im trying to make this really simple accent ‘explosion’, but the thing is
  that i get an error when im trying to use the expression:
  360/content(“Repeater 1”).copies

  I am probably a huge retard, but i honestly do not know why it isnt working

  error log:

  Expression disabled. Error at line 0 in property ‘position of layer 1 (‘Shape layer 1’) in comp ‘Intro’
  Expression result must be of dimension 2, not 1.

  Thanks for helping me out =]

  360/content("Repeater 1").copies

  Dan Ebberts replied 9 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  March 22, 2017 at 5:33 pm

  It looks like applied the expression to a Position property, which is expecting a array, like [x,y] and you’ve supplied a single number. What’s the effect you’re going for? You could do something like this:

  {360/content(“Repeater 1”).copies,value[1]]

  but that will only affect the x axis.

  Dan
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  Valentijn Wisseborn

  March 23, 2017 at 9:35 am

  I am trying to set the copies from the repeater in a circle,
  you need to know that I have been After effects for around a week now;
  and i’ve learned doing this in a tutorial, at least: it isnt working

  it might help providing a link to the video:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7dvRpceouk&t=379s

  trying to make something like that

  btw: thanks for helping me out =]

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  Valentijn Wisseborn

  March 23, 2017 at 9:38 am

  The expression at 5:45
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7dvRpceouk&t=379s

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  Dan Ebberts

  March 23, 2017 at 11:18 am

  The tutorial shows the expression being applied to the Rotation property, which is a 1D property, which should work fine with that expression.

  The error message you posted indicates that you applied the expression to the Position property, which is expecting a 2D value, so that expression won’t work there.

  Dan

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