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Rotating in increments and play animation and then continuing?
Hello fellow After Effect friends.
I have so far been hand animating a circle with a pattern that rotates 20 degrees, overshoots and then stops for a second. After a second, it rotates backwards a few degrees to gain momentum and then rotates another 20 degrees and overshoots agan and return a few degrees to settle. Similar to bounce effect, but just for something rotating to give it some life.
Instead of animating for every 20 degrees – is there a way to animate what happens the first 20 degrees including the start where it rotates backwards a few degrees to gain momentum and then rotate 20 degrees and overshoots a little and then rest – and then have it way for 1 second before it continues does the same and continue rotating?
Any direction would be much appriciated.
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Yes! Alt+click your rotation property, then add this expression:
loopOut(“offset”);
The effect of the loop will be cumulative; each iteration of the loop (as defined by the keyframes you have set) will add on to where the previous iteration left off.
Here’s a quick visual example:
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Thanks a bunch for reply as always Walter!
I get an expression error about the offset and it doesn’t continue after it reaches the last keyframe. I’m for sure doing something wrong ?
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probably just the curly quotes that wordpress added to the Walter’s post.
Try:
loopOut("offset"); -
That fixed it! I didn’t even notice it was curly quotes! Thank you so much!
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An additional question to the offset – is there a specific amount of iterations that can be run and then stop when that has been reached?
Say I want the wheel to turn around 10 times and after that I want it to stop?Best, Dan
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