[Criis Daw]

Doh !

I am not usally such a dunce but i have a terrible hangover

thanks again.

[Criis Daw]

Sorry…

i didnt explain properly before. I need the transparancy to be linked to the y rotation value.

sticking a ‘y’ in there doesnt seem to help

[Criis Daw]

i love
DAN EBBERTS

thanks very much !

[Criis Daw]

Thats cool

I havent used CS5.5 yet, but the place I am working at has it installed.
I brought the files home to try some expressions (see expressions thread) but to my dismay and consternation am unable to open the project.

Still .. i can save a CS5 copy tomorrow and have expressions fun all weekend !

[Criis Daw]

well i can animate it by adding “+value” on the end of the expression.

It works just fine except that the position path is not where i would like it. Its not a problem , just slightly more tricky visually.

I would rather leave the expression active as the layout is not ‘fixed’ at this stage..

Thanks for the help

[Criis Daw]

thats great dan , thanks very much.

I added sliders to enable me to change the layout more simply.

As I wanted to also be able to animate each layer in the grid I added ‘+ value’ on the end and now I can layout all the layers and animate individually with key frames.

There is one thing that would make it absolutley perfect. when I come to animate the individual layers with position keyframes ,the points of the path start at the origin. It would be helpful if the position path points were at the same point as the anchor point. This is not essential as it is only to aid my visually when animating them layers.

Again , Many thanks

[Criis Daw]

hello DAn

I dont suppose you mind revisiting this do you ??

I am trying to adapt the this to z value not scale ..

No luck so far but i will keep trying

this is my effort but it doesnt work (on the z position (i separated dimensions)

min= 0;
max= 1000;
L = thisComp.layer(“displacement image”);
sampleSize = 1;
point = L.fromWorld(toWorld(anchorPoint));
sample = L.sampleImage(point,[sampleSize,sampleSize]/2,true,time);
lightness = rgbToHsl(sample)[2];
s = linear(lightness,min,max);

[Criis Daw]

thanks for your help

[Criis Daw]

thanks

is after effects any good at mpeg/h264 compression ? or should i be using compression software ?

Cheers

[Criis Daw]

yes from the scripts folder; all the time.

no from scripts UI panel.

nothing shows up from the window drop down in either a mac or PC , i copied the folder name exactly as you wrote it.

I dont know why it isn’t working. If you have had this work fine then maybe there is something wrong with the set ups of these machines. I couldn’t tell you, but they do run other scripts with no problems.

If you have the answer then great but in the mean time thanks for all your effort so far.