[Caleb Power]

Ok. It isn’t necessary to do what I’m wanting to do, just a little more efficient. Thank you Dan!

[Caleb Power]

Sorry, I don’t think I’m explaining it very well.

So I have 7 layers. Each is titled whatever number it is. One layer is named “1,” one is “2,” and so on all the way to “7.”

They are positioned exactly like this:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

There is a dot that is right above the numbers that slides left and right to stop over a number to bring attention to that number.

All numbers at default are at 100% scale and 40% opacity. Whatever number the dot is above, that number is at 120% scale and the opacity is at 100%.

So, the layer named “dot” is the one that each layer responds to. (Each layer has the right expression for that to happen, you helped me with that, thanks!)

So instead of dragging the x position of the layer named “dot” for example from the layer named “1” to the layer named “4,” and copying and pasting key frames, I’d like to just be able to use a slider control (or whatever it is that will enable me to do this) to type “1” to go to the same x value of whatever layer “1” has as it’s x value. And then type “4” to make that layer named “dot” to slide over the layer named “4.”

So whether it’s a slider control or whatever, it will know that “1” is the same x value as the layer named “1.” Same for all other numbers.

[Caleb Power]

I’m honestly not sure which layer to put that expression into. If I’m suppose to put it in the layers I want to be affected by the slider, I already have a bunch of code in those.. so I don’t know what to do in that case.

[Caleb Power]

Hey Dan.

It’s the numbers 1 through 7 from left to right. The x position only will be effected. The dot will slide above each number and stop above each number. I want the position of each number to be known by the slider. So if I could somehow be able to type “1” for the position of the 1, and same for each other number.

[Caleb Power]

Hi Dan,

You’ve helped me before and I really appreciate it.
What you helped me with was telling each layer to grow to a certain size and opacity to go from 40% to 100% when a dot was with in a certain proximity of it. Not sure if you remember that or not. But I was wondering, instead of animating that dot manually, is there a way to use a slider control and just type in for example “1” and it’ll go to the position value of whatever that number is? I’d like to do the same with every number up to 7.

[Caleb Power]

Alright well thank you so much Dan, you helped us save so much time on our project!

[Caleb Power]

Ok I figured it all out and it is so cool. Thank you so much!

Would you know how to make it to where all of those expressions are only in effect when the dot stays over the number and not just passing over the numbers?

So the dot has to be stopped and still over that number for the expression to be in effect. That might be super complicated I don’t know.

[Caleb Power]

Man this is awesome!!

Ok just one thing. The numbers are all in a row next to each other. When the dot is over a number, the numbers beside it are still big. How do I get it to where only the number the dot is over is at scale 140%? Same thing with opacity. Also, I noticed the Y position value has to be the same for the dot as the numbers for the scale to grow all the way to 140% and opacity to grow to 100%. How do I get it more precise?

I know you said I’ll probably have to change the minRange and maxRange. I’ve tried messing with that but not sure exactly what I’m doing. I am super new with expressions… new language to me.

[Caleb Power]

What I have are the numbers 1 through 7. There’s a dot that moves from left to right above them. When the dot stops for example over the number 4, I’d like the number 4’s scale to grow uniformly to 140% and also the opacity to go from 40% to 100%.

So whatever the dot is over, that numbers opacity grows from 40% to 100% and the scale would grow uniformly from 100% to 140%. Anything not under the dot, opacity would be 40% and the scale would be 100%.

Sliding the dot from left the right, each number would act accordingly. Does this make sense?

[Caleb Power]

Hi Dan,

What would this expression be to make the scale grow with X and Y, not just X?