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Animating Bar Charts
I’m using horizontal vector bars (extruded and beveled in Illustrator), x-scaled over time to show their growth. I have a small text box that goes from 0-X% over that same time (using a nice expression I found here). To make the text box follow the end of the bar as it grows, I am parenting the text layer to the bar. Problem is, the text box also x-scales. Is there a way to do this with expressions to avoid the scaling (or even a Null object)? Thanks in advance!
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You could un-parent the text box from the bar, but link its position to the scale of the bar like this (adjust the *3 to alter the distance the text box travels to match the bar’s scale). Paste this expression into the position of the text box:
amount=thisComp.layer("bar").transform.scale[0];
[value[0]+amount*3,value[1]] -
Yahoo! Thanks so much, Paul. that did the trick!
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