Expressions Help

[Dan Ebberts]

It appears that my hosting company dropped tha ball on renewing my domain name. I don’t know if I’ll be able to recover it or not.

Anyway, what is it that you want to control exponentially?

Dan

[Stetsonpipes]

First of all, thank you for replying. Everything I know about expressions so far I’ve learned from your web site. I wanted to control the cannon’s particle per second parameter with a decaying curve. It’s to repel the layer exploder from the blowing text away like sand tutorial. I realize that you can turn off the cannon with a couple of keyframes but it’s more for practice then anything else. I guess I just like playing with expressions. Any idea when the site may be back up?

thanks again

[Dan Ebberts]

Try this – it might get you headed in the right direction:

maxRate = 300; //starting particles per second
decay = 1.5;

maxRate/Math.exp(time*decay)

As for MotionScript.com, I haven’t been able to get in contact with anybody at my hosting site (globat.com). In fact, their site doesn’t seem to be accessible either. So the answer to your question is – I don’t know.

Dan

[Stetsonpipes]

Thanks. That helps.

[Christopher R. green]

Dan,
Sorry to hear you’re having problems with globat. I also use them. And yes, I have had some serious problems with them [long boring story not included].
Have you been able to get in touch with anyone there? If you do, ask (demand) that they put you on their caicos server — apparently it is up (since my site is up).

best of luck

Chris G

[Rafael]

Globat… what a nightmare, I had so many troubles with them, about 20-30 times! They were great 3 years ago but then straight down the toilet.