Control Layer position by slider scale

[Dan Ebberts]

Like this:

slider = effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);
linear(slider,0,100,[50,100],[200,400])

Dan

[John Jackowiak]

Perfect. Thanks!

John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
johnj.bnm@gmail.com

***Recent Work***

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[John Jackowiak]

Actually one more question. If I wanted to add a 3rd (or more) positions, for higher values on the slider scale can it be written into the same expression? For example, at 200, position 3? I tried the following ways, but with no luck.

slider = effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
linear(slider,0,100,200[50,100],[200,400],[300,600])

or

slider = effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
linear(slider,0,100,[50,100],[200,400])
linear(slider,100,200,[200,400],[300,600])

John Jackowiak
Brand New Motion
johnj.bnm@gmail.com

***Recent Work***

https://brand-newmotion.com/reels/motion_graphics.mov

[Dan Ebberts]

I haven’t test it, but something like this should work:

slider = effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);
if (slider < 100)
linear(slider,0,100,[50,100],[200,400])
else
linear(slider,100,200,[200,400],[300,600])

Dan

[Caleb Power]

Hi Dan,

You’ve helped me before and I really appreciate it.
What you helped me with was telling each layer to grow to a certain size and opacity to go from 40% to 100% when a dot was with in a certain proximity of it. Not sure if you remember that or not. But I was wondering, instead of animating that dot manually, is there a way to use a slider control and just type in for example “1” and it’ll go to the position value of whatever that number is? I’d like to do the same with every number up to 7.

[Dan Ebberts]

Hi Caleb,

I can’t visualize what you’re asking. What “position value” are you talking about?

Dan

[Caleb Power]

Hey Dan.

It’s the numbers 1 through 7 from left to right. The x position only will be effected. The dot will slide above each number and stop above each number. I want the position of each number to be known by the slider. So if I could somehow be able to type “1” for the position of the 1, and same for each other number.

[Dan Ebberts]

If your target layer names are “1”, “2”, etc., something like this will give you the position of the one selected by a slider:

layerName = “” + Math.round(effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”));
thisComp.layer(layerName).transform.position

Dan

[Caleb Power]

I’m honestly not sure which layer to put that expression into. If I’m suppose to put it in the layers I want to be affected by the slider, I already have a bunch of code in those.. so I don’t know what to do in that case.

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m sure what you want to do can be done, I just don’t have enough information to work from.

Dan