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combining 2 things
hello everybody,
I want to apply to the z-position of a Layer
1. same values as the layer above, but a little less >
2. same values as the layer above, but a little later1.
x=position[0];
y=position[1];
z=thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.position[2]/.9;
[x,y,z]2.
x=position[0];
y=position[1];
z=thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.position.valueAtTime(time-1);these expression do either one of the desired things, but I can’t figure out, how to combine them…
how would you do?
also I wonder, why in the second one the ending [x,y,z] is not accepted but requiered in the first.
thanks
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2 Replies
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Hi Gunnar,
combing the two would be:
x=position[0];
y=position[1];
z=thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.position.valueAtTime(time-1)[2]/.9
[x,y,z]your second question:
since you only want to change the z-part of the position value, the x, y and z are stored separately as numbers, then recombined as a list with 3 values.
That is what the position property of a 3d layer expects as the result of an expression: [x,y,z]In your second example, you’ll see that in the variable z you were actually storing the entire position variable, not just the z component. [2]
Sticking that in an array would give something like [x,y,[x2,y2,z2]], and you would get an error.
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that’s it, great!
thanks a lot !
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