Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Expressions Scaling both values over time

  • Scaling both values over time

    Posted by Olly Bea on August 5, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    Hi people

    I am tentatively getting into expressions and though I think they are extremely powerful, I do find them frustrating when I can’t work out what is going wrong… could anyone help?

    I have written this expression on the scale property;

    value+(time*3)

    … basically I want both vertical and horizontal values to increase equally over time, but it seems all this expression does is increase the horizontal over time. I have tried a few things but I can’t seem to come up with the all important line. What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks in advance.

    Olly

    Dan Ebberts replied 17 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Dan Ebberts

    August 5, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    You need to add it to both dimensions, like this:

    delta = time*3;
    value + [delta,delta]

    Dan

  • Olly Bea

    August 5, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    what does delta mean? Is it just a random term or does it mean something?

    Many thanks for your help, it works exactly how I wanted.

    Olly

  • Dan Ebberts

    August 5, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    It’s just a variable name. I usually use “delta” to represent a difference or an incremental value. You could use pretty much anything though.

    Dan

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy