[Dan Ebberts]

You need a capital “M” –> Math.pow()

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

That recipe doesn’t work against a transparent background. It seems like there was another recipe floating around, but I don’t know if it addressed that problem or not.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

For a script to show up in the menu, you have to put it in the Support Files/Scripts folder. What is it that’s greyed out? I’m not sure what could cause that unless you don’t have the Pro version of 6.5.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

This is a little simpler:

100 – thisComp.layer(“Layer 1”).transform.opacity

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[Dan Ebberts]

I think I just fiddled with the multiplier until it looked reasonable with the clouds. The problem is that it isn’t really a spherical mapping, and moving a plane around to simulate the inside of a sphere is just going to be an approximation at best. There may be a multiplier that works better, but I’d be surprised if you could make it work perfectly with a more distict background.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I think it can be done, but the only way I can think of to do it will require some pretty hairy 3D rotation matrix math to calculate the angles for rotation around an arbitrary axis. Then you might have to translate the results from AE’s coordinate system to Sphere’s. I think it would be a lot of work.

Maybe somebody will chime in with a better idea.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Top view, or something else?

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[Dan Ebberts]

OK – I think I get it. Try this (change “binos” to name of your binoculars layer):

L = thisComp.layer(“binos”);
fromWorld(L.toWorld(L.anchorPoint))

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m confused. Doesn’t it do that already, without expressions? I mean, you can move the centers of those effects around on the layer they’re applied to and then they move with the layer. Are you looking for something else?

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

This should do it:

seedRandom(index,true);
random(1000,2000);

Dan