[Dan Ebberts]

Aharon,

Apparently it you could do it older versions, but newer versions have a bug that prevents access.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

That expression should work fine (even with the light being a child). There must be more to the story…..

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

That expression should work fine (even with the light being a child). There must be more to the story…..

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

What does your expression look like? The syntax in your subject line is not quite right – should be something like this:

loopOut(type = “cycle”)

or

loopOut(“cycle”,0)

or

loopOut(“cycle”)

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

What does your expression look like? The syntax in your subject line is not quite right – should be something like this:

loopOut(type = “cycle”)

or

loopOut(“cycle”,0)

or

loopOut(“cycle”)

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

You have to calculate the distance that the camera’s focal plane would need to be from the camera to include the target object. If the object is not on the camera’s z axis, it involves a little vector math, but that is greatly simplified by AE’s dot product operator.

For a target layer named “target” the expression for Focus Distance would look like this:

P = thisComp.layer(“target”).position;
dot(P – position,toWorldVec([0,0,1]))

For serious depth of field effects you’re probably going to want to crank the Aperture way up (in the hunderds).

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

You have to calculate the distance that the camera’s focal plane would need to be from the camera to include the target object. If the object is not on the camera’s z axis, it involves a little vector math, but that is greatly simplified by AE’s dot product operator.

For a target layer named “target” the expression for Focus Distance would look like this:

P = thisComp.layer(“target”).position;
dot(P – position,toWorldVec([0,0,1]))

For serious depth of field effects you’re probably going to want to crank the Aperture way up (in the hunderds).

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Change the 8th line from this:

if (n == 0){

to this:

if (n == 0 || n%2 != 0){

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Change the 8th line from this:

if (n == 0){

to this:

if (n == 0 || n%2 != 0){

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Depends on what you’re doing. A lot of times you can convert the expression to a equation based on time. Sometimes you have to have your expression “recreate” the past by walking through the comp frame by frame. The are other, more obscure techniques that can be helpful in rare situations.

If all you want to do is increment a value on each frame you could do it like this:

myVar = 10; //starting value
f = Math.round(time/thisComp.frameDuration); //frame number
myVar += f;

Dan