[Birgit Rathsmann]

Thank you!
Birgit

[Birgit Rathsmann]

Thanks for checking it out.

It was actually a different name which was apparently too long.
There seems to be a character limit on the comp name option in the expression.

You’re very helpful. Thanks.
Have a nice weekend.
Cheerio,
Birgit

[Birgit Rathsmann]

Thanks for testing it.

I re-formatted the espressions and now I also get it to work.
Thank you so much for all your generous help.
Cheerio,
Birgit

[Birgit Rathsmann]

I works beautifully, except the animation changed and now the rotation has to occur 4 frames before the postion transformation. Obviously I can’t just switch the markers, so I tried re-writing the code as below, but that didn’t work.
Is there something strange in the sequence?

Thanks,
Birgit

Position: everyone converges on a target point at marker 2

target = [1296,1194];
frames = 5;

if (thisComp.marker.numKeys >1){
 t0 = thisComp.marker.key(2).time;
 ease(time,t0,t0+frames*thisComp.frameDuration,value,target)
}else{
 value
}

Rotation: at marker 1, everyone rotates randomly between -5 and plus 5

maxR = 5;
frames = 2;
if (thisComp.marker.numKeys >0){
 seedRandom(index,true);
 target = random(-maxR,maxR);
 t0 = thisComp.marker.key(1).time;
 ease(time,t0,t0+frames*thisComp.frameDuration,value,target)
}else{
 value
}


[Birgit Rathsmann]

Hi Dan,
Thank you so much.
Maybe I am putting your code into the wrong spot because it’s not doing anything at marker 2.
I assumed I should paste into rotation expression text field?’
I am entirely learning a lot about expressions today though, so that’s fabulous.
Birgit

[Birgit Rathsmann]

Hi,
I tried to adapt the code you sent for postion and apply it to rotation, but it’s failing.
Each layer in the grid should rotate once at marker two: randomly between -5 degrees and +5 degrees and hold that rotation for the rest of the comp. (The comp is only 30 frames).

Thanks for all your help.
Birgit

[Birgit Rathsmann]

Thank you, you’re very kind.
Birgit

[Birgit Rathsmann]

The convergence point is x:858, y:344, the take 5 frames and the all arrive at the same point.
The grid was made by hand, but would be happy to re-make with an expression.
Thank you.