Adopting a colour underneath.

[Dan Ebberts]

You can use sampleImage() to sample the color of another layer. So you could apply the Fill effect to your triangles and use an expression like this for the Color parameter:

target = thisComp.layer(“background”);
samplePoint = target.fromWorld(toWorld(anchorPoint));
sampleArea = [width,height]/2;
target.sampleImage(samplePoint, sampleArea, true, time)

You can adapt it to work for opacity as well. For example, to use the red channel of your background layer to drive opacity, you could do it like this:

target = thisComp.layer(“background”);
samplePoint = target.fromWorld(toWorld(anchorPoint));
sampleArea = [width,height]/2;
c = target.sampleImage(samplePoint, sampleArea, true, time);
c[0]*100

Dan

[Neal Coghlan]

Hi Dan, thanks for the quick reply.

I’ve just had a go at trying to use that code – it seems to sample a colour from the image, however I’m not sure whereabouts the sample is being sampled! I’ve tried moving the anchor points and positions around but the colour still stays the same – even reapplying the code after changing values still shows the same colour. Not sure what I’m doing wrong here exactly..

Cheers!

Neal

[Dan Ebberts]

The expression is set up to sample (and average) an area the same size as the layer with the expression. Maybe you need to sample a smaller area. More details about your set up (layer names, dimensions, etc.) would be helpful.

Dan

[Barry Suydam]

Dan,
I am doing something similar, however what I have is white text over a horizontally split white and blue background(sampleImage BG). What I am trying to accomplish is if the portion of text is over white change the color of the text to blue and when the portion of text is over the blue background change it to white. I don’t know how to adapt this expression to do what I want it to do. I think it is close though.