Expression linking camera position to object opacity

[Kevin Camp]

here’s a link to an expression on motionscript.com that may help you out. it is for light fall off, but i think you could use it in the opacity property.

i’m in the middle of many renders that need to get done, so i can’t fiddle with this one right now… if it doesn’t work as expected, try posting questions in the ae expressions forum.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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[Pat Bray]

I’ll give it a go and will let you know how I get on.

Many thanks

P

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

The following script is from Dan Ebberts. This works straight off the bat.

// Start of Script
minDist = 600;
maxDist = 800;
minOpacity = 30;
maxOpacity = 100;

d = length(toWorld(anchorPoint),thisComp.activeCamera.position);
linear(d,minDist,maxDist,maxOpacity,minOpacity)

// End of Script

Cheers
RoRK

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[Jeremy Allen]

Video Copilot recently came out with a preset that will do exactly what you are after…

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_falloff/

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[Pat Bray]

Hi,

Thanks for your responses, I’ve tried the video co-pilot route, which works apart from the fact that the layer fades out as it gets too close to the camera, as I don’t want this how do I fix it?

I don’t know how to use the other code from Roland, any advice would be great.

Best

Pat

[Bino Nicolas]

5 years later, but could be appreciate by other people :

// Start of Script
d = length(toWorld(anchorPoint),thisComp.activeCamera.position);
if (d>1400){
minDist = 2000;
maxDist = 1400;
maxOpacity = 100;
minOpacity = 0;
linear(d,minDist,maxDist,maxOpacity,minOpacity)
}else{
minDist = 600;
maxDist = 1400;
maxOpacity = 0;
minOpacity = 100;
linear(d,minDist,maxDist,maxOpacity,minOpacity)
};
// End of Script

You have to put it on the “opacity” of the object

[Nelson Rayner]

Hi there!

Any idea how you’d do this with only the camera Z position relative to a layers anchor position?

I’m trying to create a zoom in through multiple grids of pre-composed images where the grids in the distance are more transparent.

Unfortunately the distance from anchor points to camera changes as i’m also panning in X & Y and presents me with a transparent image when moving from the centre of the layers.

Any idea how to modify the script so it works only on the z position?

Thanks 🙂