[Dan Ebberts]

Just change it to this:

textIndex <= Math.floor(time) ? 100 : 0

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

This simple example should select each character in sequence, starting at one second:

textIndex == Math.floor(time) ? 100 : 0

and apply the max amount of the Animator property to the selected character.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m not sure exactly what you mean, but you can save the script as a .jsx file wherever you want, and then run it with File > Scripts > Run Script File…

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

You can do math on the layer’s index to get to the layer above, like this:

thisComp.layer(index-1)

Or you can use relative indexing, like this:

thisComp.layer(thisLayer,-1)

but, you can’t change the actual stacking order with an expression. It wasn’t clear to me if you understood this. Sorry if you did. You could shuffle them in Z space if they are 3D layers though.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m not exactly sure what you’re up to here, but setValueAtTime() is used in scripting, not expressions. And in scripting, you would use it to create keyframes, not to manipulate existing keyframes. With a time remapping expression, all you can do is manipulate the resulting remapped time.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

This should work:


var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
for (var i = 1; i <= myComp.numLayers; i++){
myComp.layer(i).selected = (myComp.layer(i).threeDLayer || myComp.layer(i).guideLayer || myComp.layer(i).label == 1);
}


Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

This is better if you have any Move markers that have zero duration:


moveAmt = 500;
m = marker;
val = value;
if (m.numKeys > 0) {
n = m.nearestKey(time).index;
if (time < m.key(n).time) n--;
accum = 0;
y = 0;
if (n > 0){
if ( n > 1){
for (i = 1; i < n; i++){
if (m.key(i).comment == "Move") accum += moveAmt
}
}
if (m.key(n).comment == "Move"){
t = time - m.key(n).time;
y = (m.key(n).duration > 0) ? linear(t,0,m.key(n).duration,0,moveAmt) : moveAmt;
}
val = value + y + accum;
}
}
val


Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m not 100% sure from your description, but I think it will look something like this:


moveAmt = 500;
m = marker;
val = value;
if (m.numKeys > 0) {
n = m.nearestKey(time).index;
if (time < m.key(n).time) n--;
accum = 0;
y = 0;
if (n > 0){
if ( n > 1){
for (i = 1; i < n; i++){
if (m.key(i).comment == "Move") accum += moveAmt
}
}
if (m.key(n).comment == "Move"){
t = time - m.key(n).time;
y = linear(t,0,m.key(n).duration,0,moveAmt);
}
val = value + y + accum;
}
}
val


Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

In your screenshot, it appears that the first line of your expression is:

n = thisComp.name.split(“-“)[1];

not

n = thisComp.name.split(” – “)[1];

which means that the value of n would be ” CA” not “CA” (without the quotes of course). In any case I think the problem is in the first line not matching up with the way the comp name is formatted.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

try changing the section that defines t to this:

t = (q <= g) ? 1 : 0;

Dan