[Dan Ebberts]

I think maybe you just need to change the last part from this:

a = linear(time, 0, 1, startVal, endVal);
b = easeX(1, 2, [0,0], [20,20]);
a+b;

to something like this:

if (time < 1)
  linear(time, 0, 1, startVal, endVal)
else
  endVal + easeX(1, 2, [0,0], [20,20]);

[Dan Ebberts]

You could try Timewarp with a randomizing Speed expression, like this:

minSpeed = 75;
maxSpeed = 110;
minDur = 1;
maxDur = 2;
t = tPrev = inPoint;
seedRandom(index,true);
while (t <= time){
  tPrev = t;
  t += random(minDur,maxDur);
}
seedRandom(tPrev,true);
random(minSpeed,maxSpeed)

[Dan Ebberts]

Good point. Change that section to this:

var animator = textLayer.property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Animators").addProperty("ADBE Text Animator");
var selector = animator.property("ADBE Text Selectors").addProperty("ADBE Text Selector");
var fill = animator.property("ADBE Text Animator Properties").addProperty("ADBE Text Fill Color");

[Dan Ebberts]

I think this works:

// Create a new window for the UI panel
var myPanel = new Window("palette", "Add RGB Fill", undefined);
// Add a button to the panel
var myButton = myPanel.add("button", undefined, "Add RGB Fill Color");
// Add an event listener to the button
myButton.onClick = function() {
	// Get the active composition
	var activeComp = app.project.activeItem;
	if (!(activeComp instanceof CompItem)) {
		alert("Please select a text layer in the active composition.");
		return;
	}
	// Get the selected text layers
	var selectedLayers = activeComp.selectedLayers;
	if (selectedLayers.length == 0) {
		alert("Please select at least one text layer.");
		return;
	}
	for (var i = 0; i < selectedLayers.length; i++) {
		var textLayer = selectedLayers[i];
		if (!(textLayer instanceof TextLayer)) {
			alert("Please select only text layers.");
			return;
		}
		var animator = textLayer.property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Animators").addProperty("ADBE Text Animator");
		var fill = animator.property("ADBE Text Animator Properties").addProperty("ADBE Text Fill Color");
	}
}
// Show the UI panel
myPanel.show();

[Dan Ebberts]

You would get that message if your pts slider was set to 0;

[Dan Ebberts]

Another I noticed was that in your 2nd loop, you referenced i instead of i2, so that was probably one issue.

[Dan Ebberts]

concat() doesn’t change either array, but I was able to get this to work:

var topArcPos = effect("Top Arc Position")("Point");
var botArcPos = effect("Bottom Arc Position")("Point");
var pts = effect("Arc resolution")("Slider");
var timeMult = effect("Timescale")("Slider");
//Create containers; set base values
var myArray = [];
var myArray2 = [];
var myNewArray = [];
var i;
var i2;
//Add values to Arrays
for (i=0;i<pts;i++){
	myArray[i] = topArcPos.valueAtTime(i*timeMult);
	myArray2[i] = botArcPos.valueAtTime(i*timeMult);
}
//Flip myArray2
myArray2.reverse();
//Join myArray2, now reversed, to the end of myArray
myNewArray = myArray.concat(myArray2);
createPath(points = myNewArray, inTangents = [], outTangents = [], isClosed = true)

I changed the valueAtTime stuff to what I had before, because I couldn’t figure out what you were doing there, but this should get you closer.

[Dan Ebberts]

Just drop your comp in another comp, turn on time remapping, add a slider, and add a time remapping expression like this:

s = effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
framesToTime(s)

[Dan Ebberts]

Your code, entered like this:

topArc = effect("Top Arc -> Value @ Time")("Point");
pts = effect("Arc Resolution")("Slider")
timeScale = effect("Timescale")("Slider");
myArray = [];
for (i = 0; i < pts; i++){
  myArray[i] = topArc.valueAtTime(i*timeScale);
}
createPath(myArray,[],[],true)

works for me. I had Arc Resolution set to 10, Timescale set to .1, and I animated the Point Control over the period from 0 to 1 second.

[Dan Ebberts]

That’s pretty much how I’d do it unless you want to ramp from one value to the next, in which case I’d do something like this:

minVal = 100;
maxVal = 300;
minDur = .5;
maxDur = 1;
tEase = .1;
t = tPrev = inPoint;
seedRandom(index,true);
while (t <= time){
tPrev = t;
  t += random(minDur,maxDur);
}
seedRandom(tPrev,true);
s1 = random(minVal,maxVal);
seedRandom(t,true);
s2 = random(minVal,maxVal);
s = ease(time,tPrev,tPrev+tEase,s1,s2);
[s,s]