[Dan Ebberts]

The code is going to depend a lot on the format of the text, but for your example something like this should do the trick:

eval(“s=” + thisComp.layer(“Text Layer”).text.sourceText);

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

The second parameter always has to be smaller than the third parameter. So for this case it would be:

linear(position[2],-4800,-100,0,100)

The other direction would be:

linear(position[2],100,4800,100,0)

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

This should do it:

Math.min(linear(position[2],-4800,-100,0,100),linear(position[2],100,4800,100,0))

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

You could create your text in Illustrator and convert it to outlines, then import into AE. Or, upgrade to AE 7.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

Which version of After Effects are you running? AE hasn’t always supported exporting text layers to Flash.

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

I think you’d just change the next-to-last line to this and you should be good to go:

value – [0,0,(switchTime3 – switchTime2)*V2] – [0,0,(time – switchTime3)*V3];

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

How about this?

switchTime1 = 1.5;
switchTime2 = 3.0;
switchTime3 = 4.0;

minV1 = 100; // min velocity (pixels per second)
maxV1 = 500;
minV2 = 10;
maxV2 = 50;
seedRandom(index,true);
V1 = random(minV1,maxV1);
V2 = random(minV2,maxV2)
if (time < switchTime1){ value + [0,0,time*V1]; }else if (time < switchTime2){ value + [0,0,(2*switchTime1 - time)*V1]; }else if (time < switchTime3){ value - [0,0,(time - switchTime2)*V2]; }else{ value - [0,0,(switchTime3 - switchTime2)*V2] - [0,0,(time - switchTime3)*V1]; } Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

timeToSwitch = 3.0; // switch expressions at 3 seconds

if (time < timeToSwitch){ (first expression goes here) }else{ (second expression goes here) } Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

linear(position[2],500,2000,100,0)

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

These should work (in the order you asked for them):

switchTime = 1.5; //time to reverse direction
minV = 100; // min velocity (pixels per second)
maxV = 500;
seedRandom(index,true);
V = random(minV,maxV);
if (time < switchTime){ value + [0,0,time*V]; }else if (time < switchTime*2){ value + [0,0,(2*switchTime - time)*V]; }else{ value } switchTime = 1.5; //time to reverse direction minV = 100; // min velocity (pixels per second) maxV = 500; seedRandom(index,true); V = random(minV,maxV); if (time < switchTime){ value + [0,0,time*V]; }else{ value + [0,0,(2*switchTime - time)*V]; } minV = 100; // min velocity (pixels per second) maxV = 500; seedRandom(index,true); V = random(minV,maxV); value - [0,0,time*V] Dan