[Blake Goulette]

Hi Dan. I had hoped I could add, say, a checkbox control: if checked, let the loop progress; if unchecked, keep the loop where it was when the checkbox value was changed (on a particular keyframe). But that threw errors: I didn’t know what to use for an else condition, and the loopOut() itself didn’t work. Something like this:

allowLooping = thisComp.layer(“N FX”).effect(“Checkbox Control”).value;
if (allowLooping)
{
loopOut();
}
else
{
// ?!
}

But, obviously, that’s broken. Thanks again for asking!

[Blake Goulette]

Not exactly what I wanted (or thought I could get away with!), but looping the animation in the precomp (and extending its timeline longer than necessary), I can use hold keyframes with Time Remapping to more or less accompish my goal. It’s not as elegant or customizable as I hoped, but it seems to work for now. Still open to any better options, thanks!

[Blake Goulette]

That sounds amazing! Going to have to see if I can convince the powers-that-be that I need it! Thanks!

[Blake Goulette]

Never mind, I’m just mathematically challenged! All I had to do was add the wiggle result to the value assigned to “r” (above) and things behave as I want. Thanks for reading!

(Changed my last line to this):

transform.rotation = r + wiggle(wf, wa);

[Blake Goulette]

There’s always GIMP (GIMP – GNU Image Manipulation Program). It’s been a long while since I used it, but it has the capabilities you’re after, per your post.

[Blake Goulette]

It’s 4 years later but I just want to thank you for this!

[Blake Goulette]

Holy smokes, thank you! From what I can tell, this is exactly what I was trying to achieve! My speed and value graphs for timeRemap don’t visually indicate any change, but previewing shows me just what I was hoping to see!

[Blake Goulette]

Thanks Kevin! I’ll definitely give this a look…Later. I’m done with this project for today! 🙂

[Blake Goulette]

Thanks Filip. That’s what I was afraid of, but hope springs eternal 😉 Thanks for weighing in! Like I told Nick, I settled for faking it!

[Blake Goulette]

Thanks Nick. The search() method could be useful. It’s something I’ll definitely consider the next time this comes around: for now, since this is due soon (ha!), I cheated and made two layers: one all regular, one all italic, and masked the exclusive portions. It happens quickly enough and it’s a short enough word (“and”) that the kerning doesn’t get too screwy, so…yeah 🙁