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Random roation at a layer marker
Hi,
In this post https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=227&postid=34648&univpostid=34648&pview=t the rotation is accumulated at the layer marker.
I’m looking for a similar behaviour except that I would like it to rotate a random figure between e.g. -360 to 360.
I’ve been reading Dan’s text about random motion at https://motionscript.com/mastering-expressions/random-1.html, however I can’t get my head around how to solve the accumulation when using a random rotation figure. Your input how to tackle it is very much appreciated. In Dan’s text a “while” loop is used that goes through the comp one frame at a time and adds up the random numbers, I’m figuring I would need one as well but I’m sure how.Thanks
Jonas -
3 Replies
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Since you are using markers, you would not need to loop every frame, just every marker. You can use the number of markers that you have passed as the loop end number and the current iteration in the loop as the randomSeed, adding the rotations up inside the loop.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer -
Thanks Kalleheikki for the guidance! It really helped me head in a good direction.
This is what I came up with and it seems to work.
rotateTime = .6;
rotateAmt =0;
minVal = -270;
maxVal = 270;
accum = 0;
j = 1;n = 0;
if (marker.numKeys > 0){
n = marker.nearestKey(time).index;
if (marker.key(n).time > time)n--;
}
if (n > 0){
t = time - marker.key(n).time;
while (j < n) {
seedRandom(j,true);
accum += random(minVal,maxVal);
j++;
}
seedRandom(j,true);
rotateAmt = random(minVal,maxVal);
r = accum + ease(t,0,rotateTime,0,rotateAmt);
value + r;
}else
value -
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Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer
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