How to stop expression with Slider?

[Philip Bowser]

So if you have your “time*360” expression driving a slider control, you want that slider to stop counting up when it reaches a certain frame? And I’m assuming maintaining whatever value it stopped at?

Or you want it to count up until it reaches a specific value?

Philip. Bowser

[Kevin Camp]

i’d try stoping it with a layer marker:

if (marker.numKeys > 0)
	if (time > marker.key(1).time)
		n = marker.key(1).time
	else
		n = time
else
	n = time

d = 100
Math.round (n*d)/d

the expression will use the time at the point of the layer marker as the final/stop position of the hand.

if you needed to stop and start the hand, to get the most control, instead of linking the expression to time, you could link it to a slider on the same layer…

n = effect("Slider Control")("Slider")
d = 100
Math.round (n*d)/d

if you add a keyframe to the slider at :00.0 with a value of 0, and then another keyframe at say :10.0 with a value of 10, you’d get the same animation as n = time, but the animation would stop at :10.

then if you wanted it to start again at :15.0, you’d just add a keyframe at that point (value 10) and then another keyframe later with a value relative to the between the stop and re-start keyframes (in this example 5).

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Michael Garske]

Using the slider control did the trick, I wanted to apply “Animations Patterns” to the slider key frames and this works perfectly for that. Thanks Kevin!