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  • Posted by David Zegel on February 8, 2023 at 2:55 pm

    Hi! For a project i’m trying to recreate an itunes coverflow like animation.

    There are a ton of threads about making something like this, but they al seem to be either realy old or about using coverflux wich doesn’t seem to be available anymore.

    I found this discussion which got me pretty far:
    https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/creating-itunes-cover-flow/#post-1841162

    But i’m running into trouble using this expression on the Z position;

    range=200; //range when Z begins
    center=thisComp.width*0.5; //center of comp on X axis
    distance=position[0]-center;
    Zdist=400;
    if (value[0] <= center ){ Zpos=linear(center+distance,center-range,center,value[2],value[2]-Zdist); }else{ Zpos=linear(center+distance,center,center+range,value[2]-Zdist,value[2]); } value+[0,0,Zpos]

    It tells me that the results couldn’t be turned into numeric value.

    Maybe i’m doing this all wrong and there’s an easier way to go about this. But is there someone who can help me fixing thiscode or point me in to a different thread that can help.

    Thnx!

    -David

    Creating ITunes Cover Flow

    Dan Ebberts replied 3 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Dan Ebberts

    February 8, 2023 at 7:30 pm

    You’ll get that message if your layer isn’t 3D.

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