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Animate Coin Stack
Hey everyone,
I’m actually working on an animation where at some point a coin stack should be build up an down several times.
I’ve got a simple 2D graphic of a coin which I want to “duplicate” and put a little bit higher and a few pixel to each side by random or vice versa “delete” the most top coin. The coins don’t need to fly or
Of course I could manually insert 20-30 coins and animate each one itself (i.e. Transparency) but this would be pretty cumbersome. So I wonder if there is any other possibility to do this.I’ve got AE CC2017 and the only extra PlugIn I’ve got is the Trapcode Suite.
Kind regards
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Kinda solved my problem.
I inserted a Slider Control into a Null-Object in my main comp.
Made a new comp with 25 coins and arranged them. Afterwards I used this expression on the transparency:
n = thisComp.numLayers;
if (comp("mainComp").layer("theNullObjectsName").effect("theSliderControllersName")("theSlidersName").value > n - index) {
transform.opacity = 100;
} else {
transform.opacity = 0;
}Now I can build up/down my stack with one slider.
Hopefully this will be useful to someone in the future. -
You could try this expression in your first layer, then every time you duplicate the layer, it will be slightly offset on the y axis:
position+[0,(index-1)*4](change the “4” to change how much the layers are offset)
That obviously only solves a small part of your question. Ideally you could link the number of duplicated layers to a Slider Control, but I’m not sure how to do that.
Alternatively, it seems like a combination of the Array script and the Rift Script may help also speed up the process.
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Nice!
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