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Linear Wipe Transition Completion based on angle/distance of two Point Controls
Hi there,
I gave myself a problem that I’m unable to solve based on my limited math skills, but here’s the gist of things: I have two point controls that represent the start and end of a shape path (just a line with a stroke). This works. I’ve added another layer as a matte which also has a bunch of effects applied, all of which build off of an intial linear wipe. With some simple trig, I’ve got the wipe angle oriented perpendicular to the slope of the path. Great. What I can’t seem to figure out is how to convert the point controls’ values to percentage values that I can pass to a linear() function (driven by a slider that goes from 0 to 1 or vice versa). My goal is to let the user (pretty much always me, but hey) just assign the point controls and have expressions handle calculating the transition completion percentages, but I’m at a loss.
My first thought was to get the length of the path, find the midpoint by dividing that in two, then figuring out how to correlate 50% transition completion with the middle of the path. I couldn’t figure out how to do that.
My dollar store solution is to just add slider controls to represent the transition completion values and assign them manually, assuming approximating things will work okay. It does, but surely there’s something relatively simple I’m missing? I just wanted to see if anyone here has thoughts about how to make things simpler for the user. Thanks!
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