Scale Layers by Proximity to a hero layer & stay scaled!

[Peter Menich]

I’ve managed to hack Colins position expression and apply it to the scale parameter, but its pretty ugly.

Anyone got a more elegant solution?

avoidPos = thisComp.layer("ActionNull").position;
maxDisplacement = 100; //maximum amount to move the layer
minDistance = 100; //minimum distance to begin displacing at
//--
finalPos = position.valueAtTime(0);
oldDirectionVec = normalize([1,1]);
for( i = 0 ; i <= time; i+= thisComp.frameDuration ){
   try{
      vec = finalPos - avoidPos.valueAtTime( i );
      directionVec = normalize( vec );
      oldDirectionVec = directionVec;
      distance = length( vec );
      displaceAmt = ease( distance , 0 , minDistance , maxDisplacement , 0 );
      displacementVec = displaceAmt;
      finalPos += displacementVec
      } catch ( exception ){
         finalPos;
      }
}
x=finalPos-transform.position;

if(x[0]>=100){
x=[100, 100]
}else{
x=[x[0], x[0]]
}

[Peter Menich]

I think I’ve found a more elegant solution here…

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/227/16128#16128

happy days!