Offset Layers with expression

[Christopher Rotter]

I forgot to mention, how do you cycle (3) axis at once, I have this plug-in that you have to animate each axis individually so how can I apply a cycle so that is affects all three axis at once ? Also how can you tell a layer to start at a specific frame using expressions ?

In my previous post I want to rephrase it. I meant to say I have (4) layers, with a cycle expression on each layer, each layer only has (2) keyframes. How can add to the cycle expression, an offset for each layer so they don’t all cycle at once. I was going to use valueInTime but that expression AFAIK is if you have multiple keyframes which I don’t.

[Andy Engelkemier]

I think I’m trying to do the same thing so wanted to respond here.

I’m not sure how to add something to the loopOut(); expression.
I’ve got a comp I want to loop, but make a bunch of copies and do something maybe like “value + random number using the index for seed number” to just offset the value. Well, that was my initial thought, but I couldn’t get that to work.

How do you offset a loop expression?

[Christopher Rotter]

I was helped, by using a variable slider to control the offset. I can’t recall how it was done, but if you want I can offer some routes to follow ?