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Wiggle Expression for Individual Properties
Hi there everyone. Long time lurker. First time poster.
I’ve been working in the mograph industry for about three or four years now and decided that I should join this community after lurking for so long. Also, a really sharp coworker who was an AE master left the company so I’ve lost a great resource, turning to this one to make up for the loss. Boohoo, I know. Anyway….
I have this problem. I have this layer in 3D space. And I am animating it from, say, (0,0,0) in space to (0,0,100). I want to add an expression that will allow me to wiggle the X and Y of the position property individually using expression sliders on a null.
Now, I am not a programmer by any means, so this is the expression that I came up with:
x=position[0];
y=position[1];
z=position[2];
[wiggle(“nullexpressionslider1″,”nullexpressionslider2”).x, “null2expressionslider1″,”null2expressionslider2”).y, z)I know this is probably all sorts of messed up and that my syntax and logic behind it is completely skewed towards the shortbus domain. Please someone help me out. I know that I can rig up something that will work using some work arounds, but I want to be able to do it this way. Thanks in advance!
– AKN
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4 Replies
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Hi
one way
create two sliders rename it to x + y for example
add this expressionx=thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);
y=thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Slider Control 2”)(“Slider”);
z=position[2];
[x,y,z]but let’s see what dan or mylenium suggest
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“Hi
one way
create two sliders rename it to x + y for example
add this expressionx=thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);
y=thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“Slider Control 2”)(“Slider”);
z=position[2];
[x,y,z]but let’s see what dan or mylenium suggest”
Thank you for the reply! That is a great suggestion, and one that I have toyed with. I guess I am looking to do it using something like this:
x=position[0];
y=position[1];
z=position[2];
[x.wiggle(1,2),y.wiggle(1,2),z]And I would replace the freq: “1” and amp: “2” with links to slider controls on a null. Can someone tell me what is wrong with the logic in this expression? Cuz I know it is!
So I guess I want to be able to animate on this layer, but then take the animated “x” property and wiggle it varying amounts that I can define with a slider. So that most everything is contained within one expression with the wiggle freq and amp being contained on another null.
Thanks guys!
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I think you’re looking for something like this, which uses “freq” and “amp” sliders on Null 1 to determine the wiggle for x and y:
freq = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“freq”)(“Slider”);
amp = thisComp.layer(“Null 1”).effect(“amp”)(“Slider”);
w = wiggle(freq,amp);
[w[0],w[1],value[2]]Dan
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YES! That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Sweet! Thanks for the reply, it’s greatly appreciated.
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