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Color change driven by JSON-file
Dear Expression wizzards,
I’m trying to achive this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPiyOGyjWvI
but not with the hight of the shape layer but with its fill.There is a JSON-file imported into my project. In there sections for individual counties (for example “[0]”) with several days (“day0” to “day45”) and corresponding values (lets say 50 to 2000).
In my comp is also a Null-Object wich has two Color Control effects to provide two different colors. One is for a low value, the other fo a high value.
Over time I’d like to fade between these colors according to the values in my data.
I alredy tried but I’m stuck with this (and I haven’t magage to complete it):
c = footage("tripcountsPerCountyPerDate.json").sourceData; // data-source imported in projectv1 = c[0].day0; // first value of "0"
v2 = c[0].day45; // last value of "0"???
startcolor = thisComp.layer("Null 42").effect("Color 1")("Color");
endcolor = thisComp.layer("Null 42").effect("Color 2")("Color");ease(time, 1, 29, startcolor, endcolor);
linear(v,0,100,startcolor,endcolor);
So is it linear or ease at the end? And how do I get the values to drive the color?
Thank you so much and best wishes
SebastianSebastian Martinez
CGI-Designer
Cologne, Germany
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Hi folks,
I gave it another try myself and with the help of a friend of mine who is a Javascript-Pro, though he hasn’t ever touch AE before:
counties = footage("test.json").sourceData;
minmax = counties[counties.length-1];
countyName = name.split("-")[1].split(" ")[0];
var result;
for(var i = 0; i < counties.length-1; i++) {
if(counties[i].ID === countyName){
result = counties[i].days;
}
}
//v = result[timeToFrames(0)];
v = result[Math.round(thisComp.layer("Null 42").effect("Slider Control")("Slider"))];
startcolor = thisComp.layer("Null 42").effect("Color 1")("Color");
endcolor = thisComp.layer("Null 42").effect("Color 2")("Color");
linear (v,minmax.min,minmax.max,startcolor,endcolor);Data-source is a JSON-file imported into AE. The layer name ist a reference to pick its specific values out from the JSON. The part in the middle I don’t understand. But the results are driven by an animated slider (from 0 to 45 wich are the separat values animated over time). And the two colors for having a transition between them come from Color Controle effects named Color 1 and Color 2.
The JSON-file partly look like this:
The code works well. But might be written better I guess…
Sebastian Martinez
CGI-Designer
Cologne, Germany
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Hey Sebastian, any chance to actually know more about the colors?
Lets say its blue for low, and red for high values. Does interpolation above works without introducing any non-related color values? Since color is 4 dimensional array – I wonder what results such interpolation brings in real life scenarios ! Cheers!
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Hi Tomas,
thanks for asking! Regarding the colors – it just simply works. Even with 3 colors, two for max and min value and the third for medium value. The more colors you use the more distinguished is the result.
For that I finally changed the workflow a bit by just using black and white for min and max values, prerender the result and on that image-sequence I used the Colorama-Effect to ramp values with multible colors. That way it is easier to edit the desired colors.
Sebastian Martinez
CGI-Designer
Cologne, Germany
AE, AI, PS, 3ds max, C4d
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