Delay time and offset rotation (Fanning Cards Animation)

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Francis,

please share the delay expression you are currently using to enhance it further.

Yet in general, it would be something like this, assuming you have a null layer with ‘Slider’ named ‘delay’ in the comp:
delayFrames = thisComp.layer("control").effect("delay")(1);
delay = framesToTime(delayFrames);
extraSpin = 15;
thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.rotation.valueAtTime(time-delay) + extraSpin

You could change ‘inded-1’ to ‘index+1’ if your parented layers stack has a different order (if parent is below)

Cheers.

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[Francis Saldaña]

Thank you so much Tomas!

I’m just wondering if the framesToTime function is necessary, since the value of the delayFrames is just a number.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Francis – framesToTime() is there to have a greater control over the delay. Personally, I tend to keep delay between elements small, and without a need to pay close attention to the slider value.

You could remove this translation and see how it works. Also, this one is important for TimeRemapping. Without translation it does not work as expected 🙂

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[Francis Saldaña]

Oh alright, I’ll remember that. Thank you so much Tomas! You surely helped me save a lot of time. 🙂

[Vivien Lemaignan]

Hello Tomas,

I’m going to start this topic again because I’ll need a variant.

It’s for the opening of a card game 🙂

at the beginning all cards have a rotation value of 0.

The first card (control) starts its rotation from 0 to 45 with two keyframe on 1 second for example.

I would like the other cards to follow with a delay but that their rotation stops before 45° for example for the second card 40°, the third 35° etc…

I hope I’m clear enough 🙂

Thanks for your help

vivien