Postion to scale

[Criis Daw]

having tied and failed a few more times i have figured out what i want the expression to say .. but lack the skills to say it.

So in english it goes like this:

let the y scale of the matte = 0% when the wipe is at y position 540.

increase the y scale by (1080/100)% for every pixel above 540 that the wipe travels on the y axis.

So i am trying to make the the scale number work in relation to pixel measurements on the screen and have <540 = 0% scale

any help much appreciated.

Ta

[George Goodman]

Just put this expression in the scale property of the matte and change the layer name to the layer you want the position to be taken from

[value[0],thisComp.layer("ParentPosition").transform.position[1]]

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Sincerely,

George

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[Criis Daw]

Thanks for the reply

but that gives me a straight conversion of pixels in percent.

for example when the y position is 250 my matte scales to 250 %

250 is 23% of a 1080 y axis which is the scale i would predict….

But i dont want any scaling untill the wipe layer has passed the mid point at 540y.

when the wipe has gone past the mid point and come to rest at say 700 i want a scaling of 700-540 = 160 pixels

this 160 then needs to be turned into a % of 1080 so i would get a scaling of ~ 15%.

make sense ?

I can see the maths of what i am trying to do but how to write it in expessions has got me ….

[George Goodman]

An extra 15% of the scale or 15% of the screen? This would give you the extra amount of scale. So it’s saying, once the y position is greater than 540, subtract that amount from its current y position, find the percentage of 1080 that is, and add it to the scale. The thing is, I’m guessing you may actually just be wanting to add the amount of pixels it is past the 540 in terms of scale, but I’m not entirely sure.

ypos=thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 2").transform.position[1];
if (ypos>540) [value[0], value[1]+(ypos - 540)/10.8] else [value[0],value[1]]

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Sincerely,

George

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[George Goodman]

If you’re looking for the latter of what I described, something along these lines should work (again you’ll need to change the layer name from Shape Layer 2 to whatever.

ypos=thisComp.layer("Shape Layer 2").transform.position[1];
ypos1=(ypos - 540)/10.8;
yscale=transform.scale[1];
tall=thisComp.height;
if (ypos>540) [value[0], value[1]+[ypos1*(tall/100)]] else [value[0],value[1]]

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Sincerely,

George

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/georgefranklingoodman

[Criis Daw]

thanks for the reply.

i will have a proper look later. Have been diverted into less interesting work.

But in the example i gave I only want the scaling to to be relative to any value above 540. So it would be a total of 15%.

i will have a look at your examples latet and see how i get on.

Many thanks

Chris

[Criis Daw]

this worked

ypos=thisComp.layer(“color bar_base”).transform.yPosition
if (ypos>534) [value[0], value[1]+(ypos – 549)/5.4] else [value[0],value[1]]

thanks a million.

I had to tweek the numbers slightly as the matte layer scales out from the centre on y and add 25 on here ypos – 549 to compensate for the size of the bar that make the wipe.

Nice one mate .

I owe you a beer ..

(i will be London in the near future if you want to claim that pint !!)