[Eddy Loonstijn]

Hi Leopold again,
I totally agree with your statements about functions.
Concerning the efficiency of expressions, I have adopted a new way of programming with expressions:
First, I just make the code (if possible with functions ;-))
Second, I look for a condition for the expression in the greater context and code an if-statement for this condition, so that the expression code is only ‘under condition’ evaluated.
Greetings, Eddy

[Eddy Loonstijn]

Thank you for your answer.
It certainly will help me to be more efficient with my many expressions.
BTW I think that functions are only practical, so you don’t have to write so much code, but the program will for sure read all the code within the function all the times that it is called.
Your remark about the way to use if-statments is very to the point. In that way I can let AE skip many codelines that are on that moment not relevant.
Thanks again, Eddy

[Eddy Loonstijn]

Thanx Liran for your speedy answer!

At the moment I am not in a possession of the new april 2017 version of AE, so maybe there is a way around with the former version?
On the other hand, as I saw on YouTube, this Essential Graphics panel just lists single controls, while the ‘old’ panel keeps the old stacked panels as such, so they fold in and out neatly to keep everything of the content of one panel inside this one panel, for instance:

panelname: Right Hand
horizontal orientation: -4 to +4 (Slider)
verticalal orientation: -2 to +2 (Slider)
level: -2 to +2 (Slider)
handform: 0 to 4 (Slider)

panelname: Left Hand
horizontal orientation: -4 to +4 (Slider)
verticalal orientation: -2 to +2 (Slider)
level: -2 to +2 (Slider)
handform: 0 to 4 (Slider)

etc.

In this way I can open the Right Hand panel (the former open panel will close automatically) , do some adjustments and close it, so I can see the headings of all the panels neatly in a row.

That’s the way I would like to work in my character animation setup.

Hoping for another answer, Greetings Eddy