opacity delay

[Mike Clasby]

delay = 5; //number of frames to delay
op = thisComp.layer(“Leader”).opacity;
d = delay*thisComp.frameDuration;
op.valueAtTime(time – d)

[Mike Clasby]

I just had a Copy/Paste malfunction, here is all of it.

This expression on Opacity should do what you want (Copy the expression, Alt-click the opacity Stopwatch, Paste, then click outside the expression box):

delay = 5; //number of frames to delay
op = thisComp.layer(“Leader”).opacity;
d = delay*thisComp.frameDuration;
op.valueAtTime(time – d)

It assumes the first layer you made is named “Leader”, change the “Leader” in line 2 to whatever you leader layer is named. Actually line 2 should be what you had after the pickwhip you did, except with your layer name, and we made it a variable.

This expression was reassembled (hacked) form a Dan Ebberts expression from here:

https://www.motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/follow-the-leader.html

Those expression are fro trails so they use index-1 which goes off their stacking order, but the expression above will work in any layer arrangement or order.

Dan’s site is fantastico:

https://www.motionscript.com/

[Sebastian Martinez]

Wow, that works! Like a swissmade watch – nice. That worked IN KIND of they way…

More persize now: The “leader’s” opacity from 0 to 100 within a frame. The follower should start it’s 0 % opacity from the same spot but reaches the 100% continuously after the delay of 5 frames or whatsoever.

Jese, that was a big lesson anyway! Thank you yikesmikes for your instant help. Ikind of understand and “read” that syntax – I just tried with more of big dan’s stuff but with not much of usefull results. I guess it’s just a language thing.

Dan’s webpage is a great indeed! I have visited it a few times before. Before I posted that message I tried a few expressions from the very same link where you “cracked” your sugestion from.

But thanks so far big time!

Seb