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Wave Animate On
I’m trying to animate a large amount of boxes like a circular wave, essentially outward from a central point. I want each piece to animate on its z-position.
I have all of my pieces, and I animated a null rather than each individual piece, so I can make changes later more easily later. Now I’m trying to figure out the best way to time each piece so that it looks like it’s moving in a wave.
My original plan was to use this Evan Abrams’ video as a reference and trigger the animations depending on an invisible background layer using a radial ramp. I have failed in that attempt though. I couldn’t figure out how to actually write an expression that would trigger a layer to run the null’s animation.
I very well may be going about this in a much too convoluted way as well. -
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On a conceptual level, you’d want to calculate the distance from the center point of the wave and then use the sine function of the distance plus time to offset in Z.
If you want to control it in some way, add a slider control and connect it to the amplitude, for instance.
Once it works on one layer, copy it to all the other layers.
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