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Animate two directions
Hello!
I’m trying to rig some circles.
They are made with 3D stroke. One circle on each layer.
So I have to work with the XY position of the 3D stroke effect.
I want that when the small circle goes up, the other circles follow it below it at a proportional distance between them, and when it goes down they follow it but on top of it. Everything animated from the middle, that is, from the middle up and from the middle down.
I have tried an if else but it jumps when I tell it to be up or down. -
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It’s important to think about what happens exactly when the small circle changes direction: should the other circles stay where they are, and only start following down when their “leader” has passed their own y-value ?
Or should they stretch? All of them moving proportionally back at the same time until the smallest one goes beneath the zero mark?
Or does changing direction cause a rippling wave ?
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Sorry! I’ll explain better 🙂
They all move proportionally backwards at the same time until the smallest one passes below the zero mark. The biggest one always stays in the same place and the smallest one is the one that proportionally oscillates and drags the others up and down, as if it were chewing gum. -
Ok, sounds like you can take the difference between the large one and the smallest one, and multiply that by 1/4 , 2/4 , 3/4. If the large one (which never moves) is not at zero, then those fractions of the distance the smallest one moves, you should add to that base-position.
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