[Dan Ebberts]

Another really useful tool for figuring this stuff out is Jeff Almasol’s wonderful rd_GimmePropPath script. You can get it from his redefinery site.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

You can’t necessarily go by what’s visible in the UI. Especially with shape layers, there are hidden groups. Some of the ones you can see are likely in a hidden group called “Contents”. You can suss things out by poking around with a text layer with a source text expression like this:

p = thisComp.layer(“Shape Layer 1”).content(“Rectangle 1”).transform.rotation;
p.propertyGroup(2)(1).name

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Try it this way:

parentStyle = thisComp.layer(“TEXT 3”).text.sourceText.style;
parentStyle.setText(thisComp.name)

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

The problem is that expressions have no memory, so you can’t keep track of when an event like that happens. What you could do is check if the sampleImage() result is currently above the threshold, and if so, then you can have the the expression go backwards in time, frame by frame, (using sampleImage’s time parameter) to find the frame where the value went from below the threshold to above the threshold. From that you can calculate how long ago that happened, and how far you should be into the time remapping. Tricky, but do-able.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I haven’t tested it, but it should be like this:

reload = effect(“Magazine Reload”)(“Slider”).nearestKey(time).index;
if (time < effect(“Magazine Reload”)(“Slider”).key(reload).time) reload–;
Math.round(value)+(25*reload);

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m not sure what you’re asking. The expression can only have one result.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

For a multi-conditional structure, you need an if, followed by a number of else if statements, and finally, an else. So your example might look like this:


if (thisComp.layer("COLOR MASTER").effect("HOME SWAP")("Checkbox") == 1) {
sampleImage([920,440],[1,1]);
}else if (thisComp.layer("COLOR MASTER").effect("HOME PRI TO TER")("Checkbox") == 1) {
sampleImage([930,536],[1,1]);
}else{
sampleImage([760,444],[1,1]);
}


[Dan Ebberts]

Like this maybe?

linear(time,inPoint,outPoint,0,100)

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Try this:

L = comp(“main_01”).layer(thisComp.name);
fromComp(L.effect(“Point Control”)(“Point”))

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I haven’t tested it, but it should be like this:

pct = .25; // increase by 25%
r = 100; // distance to begin increasing scale
center = thisComp.height/2;
p = toWorld(anchorPoint);
d = length(p,[p[0],center]);
mult = ease(d,0,r,pct,0);
value*(1+mult)

Dan