[Dan Ebberts]

For it to work there has to be something behind the shadow-catching layer. It doesn’t work against just the background color of the comp.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Recipe for shadow-catching invisible layer:

Use a white solid.
Set mode to Multiply.
Accepts Shadows = on.
Accepts Lights = off.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Assuming x and y scale are linked, I’d do it like this:

factor = 10;
Math.abs(thisComp.layer(“scale_layer”).scale.velocity[0])/factor;

Adjust factor to get the relationship you want between the velocity and blur.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Assuming x and y scale are linked, I’d do it like this:

factor = 10;
Math.abs(thisComp.layer(“scale_layer”).scale.velocity[0])/factor;

Adjust factor to get the relationship you want between the velocity and blur.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Adding this expression to your angle control should do the trick:

value%360

The alternative would be to do the same thing in the expressions that reference the control, like this:

effect(“Angle Control”)(“Angle”)%360

( “%” is the JavaScript modulus operator that returns the remainder of a division).

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Adding this expression to your angle control should do the trick:

value%360

The alternative would be to do the same thing in the expressions that reference the control, like this:

effect(“Angle Control”)(“Angle”)%360

( “%” is the JavaScript modulus operator that returns the remainder of a division).

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Assuming that you turned on time remapping, dragged the layer duration gizmo to the right, and added at least three keyframes between the two that AE created when you turned on time remapping, then you should get looping at the end that doesn’t include the stuff before the first keyframe that you added.

If you did something else then it’s hard to say.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Assuming that you turned on time remapping, dragged the layer duration gizmo to the right, and added at least three keyframes between the two that AE created when you turned on time remapping, then you should get looping at the end that doesn’t include the stuff before the first keyframe that you added.

If you did something else then it’s hard to say.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

You can do it with the rotation tool if you have Local Axis Mode selected in the Tool palette. If you watch what happens to the rotation (or orientation) values, you’ll see that rotating on the x or y axis generally changes all the x,y, and z values.

When I want to control x, y, and z rotation values independently by entering the values in the Timeline window, I use two nulls. You set up one null as the parent of the other, which is the parent of your text layer.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

This version should be 5.5 friendly (didn’t try it though):

minDelay = 3;  // minimum delay (frames)
maxDelay = 15; // maximum delay (franes)
maxX = 5; // max x offset (pixels)
maxY = 15 // max y offset (pixels)

end = 0;
j = 0;
while ( time >= end){
 j ++;
 seed_random(j,true);
 end += random(minDelay,maxDelay)*this_comp.frame_duration;
}
value + random([-maxX,-maxY],[maxX,maxY]);

Dan