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play keyframes at random time
I have a layer with some scale keyframes. Now I would like to loop this animation BUT with a random pause between the loops.
Since it would great if the loop also switches it’s position with every loop I thought it would be a good idea to have an independant value, which could be read from the position and the scale expression.
Maybe something like a slider which randomly switches from 0 to 1, to make the position change and start the loop again.
This would then be the expression for this sliderBut I’m still not sure if this is really the way to go, since I’m having a hard time figuring out the expression for position and the scale keyframes.
segMin = .5; //minimum segment duration
segMax = 2.5; //maximum segment duration
Dur = .05;end = 0;
j = 0;
while ( time >= end){
j += 1;
seedRandom(j,true);
start = end;
end += random(segMin,segMax);
}
if (time > end - Dur){
1;
}else{
0
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I used one of Dan Ebberts Random Motion scripts to figure out the first part of this expression construction. I thought I should share it, since maybe someone else could find it helpful.
This expression will loop the existing keyframes of this property in a random timespan of 1 to 5 seconds.PSEmin = 1;
PSEmax = 5;end = 0;
j = 0;
while ( time >= end){
j += 1;
seedRandom(j,true);
start = end;
end += random(PSEmin,PSEmax);
}MT = time - start;
valueAtTime(MT);
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So it seems I got everything working. I honestly have no idea if someone will find it useful, but I’ll post it anyways.
This example layer has a few keyframes on scale and a point control effect applied, which is called timer.
EXPRESSION 1 does all the magic and is applied on the point control effect. (It’s only a point control to get access to two values)
EXPRESSION 2 is applied on scale and
EXPRESSION 3 is applied on position and will make the layer jump to a new position every time the keyframes get “played”------------------------------------------------------
EXPRESSION 1PSEmin = 1;
PSEmax = 5;end = 0;
j = 0;
while ( time >= end){
j += 1;
seedRandom(j,true);
start = end;
end += random(PSEmin,PSEmax);
}
[start,end]------------------------------------------------------
EXPRESSION 2start = effect("timer")("Point")[0]
MT = time - start;valueAtTime(MT);
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EXPRESSION 3maxX = 600;
maxY = 600;
start = effect("timer")("Point")[0]
seedRandom(start,true);
Xpos = random(maxX);
Ypos = random(maxY);
[Xpos,Ypos]
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