Scale Expression

[Zuktoor2]

create a scale animator of one character an animate the offset

[Mike Clasby]

Methinks jj gifford’s Scale expression is what you want. There is an aep to download:

https://jjgifford.com/expressions/geometry/length.html

Anyway, if you position the “Drag Me” Layer in the Center of your comp, then animate your text layers (or his ai layers) moving them across the Drag Me, then their scale builds as they approach, and decreases as they move away. Turn off the eyeball for Drag Me and they just scale off the center of the comp )or wherever you position the now invisible Drag Me. Here’s the expression:

// Point1 is Letter layer, point2 is control layer named “Drag Me”
point1=this_layer.position;
point2=this_comp.layer(“Drag Me”).position;

// Find the vector between the 2 points
delta=sub(point1, point2);

// Now find the length
distance=length(delta);

//Use linear() to remap distance to range of 40 to 0
linear(distance, 0, 80, [250,250], [75,75]);

I changed some of the explanations (the stuff after the //) because they explain a Blurry effect (same principal as the scale, just driving a Blur with closeness to the “Drag Me” layer).

It’s setup so at 80 pixels from the “Drag Me” layer the letter scales from 75% up to 250% at 0 pixels from “Drag Me” (or right on top of “Drag Me”. If you wanted it to Start scaling up 150 pixels away and reach that 250% 50 pixels either side of Drag Me(so it stays at the max 250% for 100 pixels, 50 each side of “Drag Me”), the last line would be:

linear(distance, 50, 150, [250,250], [75,75]);

The letters have to be on individual layers if you want them to scale individually.

[Tim Hook]

Of course… thanks, that was stupid easy.