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  • How do I gradually decrease the shake effect using the wiggle expression?

    Posted by Sebastian Lee on December 19, 2013 at 5:17 am

    How do I gradually wane the vibration made using wiggle expression? you know, when u make an object vibrate/shake using the wiggle(n,n) expression on the position parameter, and after a few sec, i want to make the wiggle gradually goes off/decrease. But how to do this? If I am to trim the layer to make it into two separate layers, the first one wiggles and the next layer suddenly comes to an abrupt stop. That’s so not realistic. So how?

    Tom Holmes replied 12 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Tom Holmes

    December 19, 2013 at 10:19 am

    Hey Sebastian,

    if you apply two slider controls (Effect > Expression Controls > Slider Control) to the layer that you want wiggled, and then pick-whip the frequency value (the first of two values in a wiggle expression) to the first slider, and then pick-whip the variation value (the second of the two values to the second slider control, you will then be able to keyframe the sliders and gradually fade off the wiggle.

    For example, if the layer you wanted to wiggle was called ‘Layer 1, you’d apply two sliders to this layer and the position expression would read;

    wiggle(effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”),effect(“Slider Control 2”)(“Slider”))

    Hope this helps!

    Tom

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