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Adam Mall
July 27, 2019 at 6:08 pm in reply to: Speed up/down along a mask path

UPDATE: solved

I’ve found an entire workaround that is so easy. I can’t program or come up with expression solutions, but I was able to get the exact animation of the orbits from someone who created the orbits in Python .. so what I did was motion tracked the dots/planets.. all the orbital paths and speeds tracked perfectly. For the orbital path outlines I just took a still from the mov file 1920 x 1080 and dumped it into illustrator and traced the paths/or made ellipses to copy the exact paths. Later I copied each path back into after effects as shape layers … and placed it under the tracking ..

So this solution worked out really well — as long as the data has been compiled in something you can track in 2D … for someone like me that has no programming experience this is an effective solution.
Adam Mall
July 23, 2019 at 10:23 pm in reply to: Speed up/down along a mask path

I can’t share it in this forum.. is there a way I can e-mail it to you? I’ve also conversed with Dan Ebberts and it has some complications to it, but it’s definitely way beyond my understanding of expressions too. Let me know ! I still want to try it, maybe I’ll suddenly be blessed with great knowledge and understanding haha – thanks!
Adam Mall
July 18, 2019 at 9:59 pm in reply to: Speed up/down along a mask path

Thanks for all of that. I appreciate it…. unfortunately it’s still not working.. but it’s getting far too complicated for me/skill set.

I am now looking at the total speed of the actual planet from a CVS data file that I have converted to JSON (this is the preferred method). I am hoping I can reference that data to drive the planet at the correct speed around the ellipse … but this will be complicated too no doubt
Adam Mall
July 11, 2019 at 8:13 pm in reply to: Speed up/down along a mask path

13521_wooverlayversion1withplanetsforreduced.aep.zip
Adam Mall
July 11, 2019 at 7:53 pm in reply to: Speed up/down along a mask path

I’ve uploaded it but it doesn’t show up on the thread at all ..
Adam Mall
July 11, 2019 at 7:36 pm in reply to: Speed up/down along a mask path

trying to upload file
Adam Mall
July 11, 2019 at 7:17 pm in reply to: Speed up/down along a mask path

anyone ha ?
Adam Mall
July 5, 2019 at 6:29 pm in reply to: Speed up/down along a mask path

unfortunately still not working …

I have a shape layer as my object (a planet) moving around the motion path (elliptical orbit) .. in order for the object to move around the motion path I pick whipped the position of the object to the motion path position… could that have something to do with it ?

I added the slider to the shape layer planet .. renamed it Progress ..then I added the expression to the motion path .. still same error. I know it has to be something relatively simple I’ve done wrong 🙁
Adam Mall
July 5, 2019 at 2:14 am in reply to: Speed up/down along a mask path

I’ve tried this expression on the position of my motion path, but I am getting an error: function effect is undefined. I’ve added the slider to the layer that is moving … not sure why this happening