Declan Smith
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I clicked the Upload image icon (as shown below)
1. choose you file
2. click upload.
3. Then at the top right, click on the image name you want to use
4. then select the text in the appropriate box copy it and paste it into your post
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase -
None of what I did is keyframed. I let the particle generator do all the work. Settings for all three plugins below. This is simply as the other contributor described. Duplicate your layer, and add the effects to the upper copy. My Comp Size is 2048 x 1536 (the size of the photo) to give you a reference for the settings. The producer is just off the screen at the top.
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase -
See below for a quick example with Mr Mercury + fractal noise. Looks quite good in motion.
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase -
Nick
In the expression, the semi-colon at the end is a terminating character and must always be the last thing on the line.
eg. change what you have, to read
(effect("Point Control")("Point")[0].toFixed(2)).replace(/(\\d)(?=(\\d{3})+(?!\\d))/g, "$1,") + "S" ;
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase -
Like that technique (CC Mr. Mercury), very effective.
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase -
Select all the keyfames for the point control, cmd click (or ctrl click if on windows) until they are all diamond shapes. Then, with them all selected, right click and select ‘keyframe interpolation’. Now change both temporal and spatial interpolation to linear.
This should stop the numbers going negative.
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase -
This shouldn’t need another expression. The expression you have is purely for formatting the required number. Assuming that you are now using the point control that I suggested, you just need to add keyframes at the various points to ramp up through time to suit.
So if I assume that your animation is over say 10 seconds, then at the beginning, set the value of the x portion of the point control to 12, add a keyframe. Then say at 5 seconds add another keyframe by changing the value to 17000, then say at 8 seconds set another keyframe with the value 4200,000,000.
Clearly you will need to play with timings and possibly keyframe interpolation, to get the ramping how you want it.
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase -
Nick,
Sorry, would have help if I had pasted a valid expression 😉
Try this. I have also included the screen shot in case the characters get corrupted:
"$" + (effect("Point Control")("Point")[0].toFixed(0)).replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, "$1,");
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase -
I think that is a hard limit of the slider control. Not quite sure what you are doing, but I guess you are keyframing the value or something. You could use a “Point Control” instead of a slider and just use one of the dimensions if you are trying to store the numbeer e.g
replace
effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”)
with
effect(“Point Control”)(“Point”)[0]
The full expression would then become:
"$" + (effect("Point Control")("Point")[0].value.toFixed(0)).replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, "$1,");
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase -
You could try the Redgiant software plugin, echospace
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/trapcode-echospace/
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS5.5/ FCS3 / Canon 7D / Canon XL2 / Reason / Cubase
