[Dan Ebberts]

test 2

if (marker.numKeys > 0){

  tStart = marker.key(1).time;
  time - tStart;
}else
  0;


		

    

[Dan Ebberts]

Something like this, maybe:

Pos01 = [200,100,0];
Pos02 = [100,200,0];
Pos03 = [300,200,0];
moveTime = 0.3;
m = thisComp.marker;
n = 0;
if (m.numKeys > 0){
  n = m.nearestKey(time).index;
  if (m.key(n).time > time) n--;
}
if (n > 0){
  t1 = m.key(n).time;
  t2 = t1 + moveTime;
  if (m.key(n).comment == "Pos01"){
    ease(time,t1,t2,valueAtTime(t1),Pos01);
  }else if(m.key(n).comment == "Pos02"){
    ease(time,t1,t2,Pos01,Pos02);
  }else if(m.key(n).comment == "Pos03"){
    ease(time,t1,t2,Pos02,Pos03);
  }else{
    value;
  }
}else{
  value;
}

[Dan Ebberts]

I guess you could parse it with eval(), like this:

aL = eval(thisComp.layer("orderData").text.sourceText.split(",")[3]);

[Dan Ebberts]

There may be training on out there for expression selectors, but I don’t recall seeing anything.

The main thing to remember is that at each frame, the expression runs once for each character/word/line (depending on the “Based On” setting) and you use textIndex to tell the expression which one it’s currently working on. Sometimes you also need to use textTotal, which has the total number of characters/words/lines.

One tricky thing is that textIndex goes from 1 to n, but your character index into the actual text goes from 0 to n-1 (and textIndex skips over any carriage control, so things can get out of whack if you have multiple lines).

[Dan Ebberts]

Yes, the expression goes on the camera’s position property. I’ve cleaned it up a little:

Pos01 = [200,100,0];
Pos02 = [100,200,0];
Pos03 = [300,200,0];
m = thisComp.marker;
n = 0;
if (m.numKeys > 0){
  n = m.nearestKey(time).index;
  if (m.key(n).time > time) n--;
}
if (n > 0){
  if (m.key(n).comment == "Pos01"){
    Pos01;
  }else if(m.key(n).comment == "Pos02"){
    Pos02;
  }else if(m.key(n).comment == "Pos03"){
    Pos03;
  }else{
    value;
  }
}else{
  value;
}

[Dan Ebberts]

Try setting your Position Animator to [0,-100,0], add an Expression Selector, and set its Amount expression to something like this:

period = 6;
t = (time - inPoint)%period;
delay = .25;
individualDelay = .15;
myPeak = delay + (textIndex - .5)*individualDelay;
delta = Math.abs(myPeak - t)
y = ease(delta,0,individualDelay*2,100,0);
[0,y,0]

[Dan Ebberts]

Something like this then:

current = Math.round(effect("Current")("Slider"));
prev = Math.round(effect("Previous")("Slider"));
diff = current - prev;
if (diff < 0){
  prefix = "-";
}else if (diff > 0){
  prefix = "+";
}else{
  prefix = "+/-";
}
prefix + Math.abs(diff)

[Dan Ebberts]

It’s not clear (to me at least) what you’re asking. What are you comparing against? Also, I don’t understand the “+/- 0” part at all.

[Dan Ebberts]

Maybe like this:

angle = effect("Angle Control")("Angle");
r = 50; // radius
c = [50,50]; // center
a = degreesToRadians(angle); // angle in radians
c + [Math.sin(a),-Math.cos(a)]*r

[Dan Ebberts]

It seems like this line:

layerVal = layerVal.replace(/[^1-9]/g, '')

will give layerVal a value of 1 for layer “Octagon 10”