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  • Move layer x pixels every nn frames

    Posted by Navarro Parker on January 20, 2016 at 11:04 pm

    would like to move my layer’s position by an artbitrary amount of pixels in +x direction in a certain period of time.

    Ideally, it would go something like this: Every half second, add nn to the x position of a layer using hold interpolation.

    Or every 12 frames, jump the position xx pixels to the right.

    So there would be a continuous progressive jumpy scroll to the right.

    Víctor Sanz replied 4 years, 11 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
  • 8 Replies
  • Dan Ebberts

    January 20, 2016 at 11:25 pm

    This should work:

    tStep = framesToTime(12);
    jumpX = 10;
    nSteps = Math.floor((time-inPoint)/tStep);
    value + [nSteps*jumpX,0]

    Dan

  • Mikhail Vasilev

    January 21, 2016 at 11:44 am

    Hi Dan.
    And how about random time and distance intervals ?
    And smooth(ease) movement? : )

  • Ido Shor

    July 31, 2016 at 2:10 pm

    it would be great if you can add a smooth interpolation between “keyframes” to this expression.

  • Dan Ebberts

    July 31, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    Maybe like this:

    tStep = framesToTime(12);
    jumpX = 10;
    t = time – inPoint;
    nSteps = Math.floor(t/tStep);
    phase = t-(tStep*nSteps);
    e = ease(phase,0,tStep,0,jumpX);
    value + [nSteps*jumpX + e,0]

    Dan

  • Ido Shor

    July 31, 2016 at 6:20 pm

    Tnx…. works like a charm. 🙂

  • Víctor Sanz

    May 22, 2020 at 4:28 pm

    That’s sweet. It would be posible to add a pause between those jumps??
    Thank you

  • Dan Ebberts

    May 22, 2020 at 5:35 pm

    Like this maybe:


    tStep = framesToTime(12);
    tPause = framesToTime(10);
    jumpX = 10;
    t = time - inPoint;
    nSteps = Math.floor(t/(tStep+tPause));
    phase = t-((tStep+tPause)*nSteps);
    e = ease(phase,0,tStep,0,jumpX);
    value + [nSteps*jumpX + e,0]

    Dan

  • Víctor Sanz

    May 22, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    It works perfectly!! Thank you very much Dan. Cheers

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