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Dynamic percentage change.
I have a 4 bars(1 bar with 4 colors), each represents a percentage of ingredients in a formula. Is there a way to adjust 1 ingredient and have the other 3 to proportionally expand or shrink based on that adjustment. For example, if all the ingredients were 25% and I adjusted 1 to 28% have the others adjust to 24%. Every time I try to create an expression to do this, I run into a circle that if I adjust A to 20% , then adjust B to 50% how do I get A to then re-adjust?
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.replied 6 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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I’m not sure how you have things set up, but it seems like the percentage for A would be something like this:
100*A/(A+B+C+D)
and for B:
100*B/(A+B+C+D)
etc.
Dan
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Hi Dan,
Right now I have 4 sliders for inputs, the outputs are to control the scale of 4 different colored bars(using some scripting you helped someone else with). In the project attached, my 4 inputs are B1 = 25, B2 = 25, B3 = 10, B4 = 50, for 100%, but the outputs are 24.09, 23.82, 8.48, 45.45. Trying to set this up to demonstrate/illustrate the ease and quickness of beverage formula changes but it’s been anything but easy and quick.
Really appreciate you taking the time to look at this.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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So for bar 1, it would look like this:
x = scale[0];
b1 = thisComp.layer(“Controls”).effect(“bar 1”)(“Slider”);
b2 = thisComp.layer(“Controls”).effect(“bar 2”)(“Slider”);
b3 = thisComp.layer(“Controls”).effect(“bar 3”)(“Slider”);
b4 = thisComp.layer(“Controls”).effect(“bar 4”)(“Slider”);
y = 100*b1/(b1+b2+b3+b4);
[x,y]Dan
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You do realize that once you’ve adjusted even just one slider, the slider input values lose their meaning. So you may want to add text fields that give you the final output values for the sliders with the same logic. Unless you’re applying there to the sliders themselves. Even there some rounding would be a good idea.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Thank you very much. I started out with a formula like that on Friday, it wasn’t working correctly and as I went I made it more and more complicated, which did not help the process at all.
You are the best.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
I realize that now. That was probably 90% of my problem on Friday, not seeing that issue. I was thinking that their might be a way to make it so that the new input on the slider would adjust the other sliders and itself remain be fixed, until I adjusted another slider. IE…go from 25 to 28, BCD change to 24. Change B to 21 A to 28, CD to 25.
I’ll link the text to the slider output, and I should be good to go.
Thank You too, Kalleheikki.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.
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