Expression to offset shape group scale animation

[Hung Nguyendac]

I think Pastiche will be the easiest way for you

https://aescripts.com/pastiche/

[Angel Tomsom smith]

Thanks Hung for your suggestions, but I’m not entirely sure Pastiche will help me with this. Maybe you can confirm if it can work with shapes groups as it does with layers.

The fundamental issue is that the font I’m using belongs to the brand identity, so I have to create text with it, and then convert the typo into shapes and animate the scale of the circles or dots in a sequential way.

I believe an expression will work great as I can copy-paste it over the dozens of groups I will have and it will propagate and offset the scale animation based on each group number.

Cheers

[Angel Tomsom smith]

As far as I understand now, I need to get to know how the “offset=.1” instruction works inside the scripting language.

Anyone can help?

Thanks

[Dan Ebberts]

offset = .1;

is just setting the variable the defines the timing offset to one tenth of a second. If you wanted it to be one frame, you could change it to this:

offset = thisComp.frameDuration;

[Graham Quince]

I’d probably “cheat” and use Keyframe Assistant > Sequence Layers.

But something like this on opacity would have each layer follow the one below:

var trans =thisComp.layer(index+1).transform.opacity;
var dur = 1/30;
trans.valueAtTime(time-dur)

[Angel Tomsom smith]

Sequence layers can’t be an option because if you check the screenshot I posted, the typo made of dots will made a simple sentence of 2 or 3 words very likely a +100 layers comp.

My aim is to understand how to offset an expression linked to an animation of a group of shapes but inside the same layer.

The expression content(“NAME OF THE FIRST GROUP”).transform.scale will link the animation of the scale between shape groups. I just need to offset each of the next groups by 1 or 5 frames from the master animation for the first dot.

Cheers

[Angel Tomsom smith]

I think I found the right expression:

This one works between shape groups for a SCALE animation

for x5 frames offset

offset = .2;content(“NAME OF THE GROUP“).transform.scale.valueAtTime(time-offset);

for x1 frame offset

offset = thisComp.frameDuration;content(“NAME OF THE GROUP“).transform.scale.valueAtTime(time-offset);

[Angel Tomsom smith]

Anyhow, it only works for the 2nd group – the rest of the groups will not offset but mimic 2nd group behavior.

Anyone in how to offset depending of group order?

[Angel Tomsom smith]

Finally made it work with this expression

offset = .1;
id = thisProperty.propertyGroup(2).propertyIndex;
content(“B 2”).content(“Group 2”).transform.scale.valueAtTime(time-id*offset)