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  • Playing portions of a composition based on slider value

    Posted by Chris Thomas on December 7, 2017 at 3:28 pm

    I have a composition and in it there are several states of a single character. At second 0 he’s standing still; at second 5 he’s running; at second 10 he’s jumping. You get the drift.

    I’d like to find a way of nesting that comp and playing each of those sections using a slider. For example, when the slider changes from 0 to 1, it starts playing the running frames. When it changes from 1 to 2, he jumps. Then from 2 to 0, he’s standing still. Each time I change the value of the slider, it plays a different section until the next slider value is changed.

    I know I need to somehow link my time remapping to the slider, but I can’t get it to continue playing until the next slider value changes.

    Would love some help if someone has an idea!

    Chris Thomas replied 7 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  • Chris Thomas

    December 7, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    After quite some digging, I found a script that will allow you to trigger different parts of a comp via markers:

    < a href=”https://www.laconic4d.com/portfolio/trigger-animations-with-markers/” target=”new”>https://www.laconic4d.com/portfolio/trigger-animations-with-markers/

    Works great!
    C

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