Linking Fill Color to Rotation

[Dan Ebberts]

Play around with this fill color expression:

color1 = [255,255,255,255]; // white + alpha
color2 = [87,110,163,255]; // shade of blue + alpha
r = transform.rotation;
if (r > 90) color2/255 else color1/255

Dan

[Nick Adcock]

Thank you Dan and thank you for monitoring these boards like you do and being so damn good at actionscript.

I did a slight mod for the y rotation and different rotation values but it worked perfectly.

color1 = [255,255,255,255]; // white + alpha
color2 = [87,110,163,255]; // shade of blue + alpha
r = transform.yRotation;
if (r < -90) color2/255 else color1/255

[Joel Young]

I’m trying something similar to this, but I want the color to be driven by the value of a text layer. I’m going for a conditional statement, but even when I simplify it I am not getting the desired results. It seems to just return the value of the first if statement no matter what.

color1 = [255,255,255,255];
color2 = [0,255,0,255]; // Green
color3 = [255,0,0,255]; // Red

c = thisComp.layer("Text1").text.sourceText;

if (c = "Green")
color2/255;
else if (c = "Red")
color3/255;
else
color1/255;

[Dan Ebberts]

In your if statements, change “=” to “==”.

Dan

[Joel Young]

Works perfect. Thank you very much for showing me ==, now the search results show a lot more information.

[Evan Hancock]

Hi there,

I know this thread is quite old but had a question in regards to the following expression.

What do I add or replace to the expression to fade to from color 1 to color 2?

color1 = [255,255,255,255]; // white + alpha
color2 = [87,110,163,255]; // shade of blue + alpha
r = transform.rotation;
if (r > 90) color2/255 else color1/255

[Dan Ebberts]

if you want the color to fade based on the value of r (say as r goes from 90 to 95), you could do it by replacing the last line with something like this:

linear(r,90,95,color1/255,color2/255)

Dan