[Erin Shelby]

Yes, basically I have four values on 4 different expression sliders. They will constantly be differing values, but depending on which value is the highest I want a text layer to be a certain color. So (in pseudo code) ideally it would be something like:

if
x is highest = make this text layer green
y is highest = make this text layer yellow
z is highest = make this text layer blue
w is highest = make this text layer red

Filip’s code works for two values, but four is a bit more perplexing. Do i have to nestle the statements?

Also, I am not sure how to determine the colors exact values using the odd [1,1,1,0] format of after effects. I have the RGB values, is the conversion just divided by 255?

Thanks for all your help thus far.

Erin.

[Erin Shelby]

ah, never mind I think I figured out a way to do it. Thanks for the help thus far!

[Erin Shelby]

thanks! it does work. however, I thought I could place the expression after a ‘wiggle’ expression I found that wiggled the layer. The end effect being a wiggle, then the layer moves afterwards. Is this possible? I have put the code below, perhaps you can see my intent.

timeToStart = 8;
timeToStop = 12;

if ((time > timeToStart) && (time < timeToStop)){
w = wiggle(7, 28);
[value[0],w[1]];
}else{
value;
}

ease(time,12,15,[value[0],value[1]],[value[0],600])

[Erin Shelby]

Thanks Dan/Colin! I’ll give it a whirl.

-Erin

[Erin Shelby]

Amazing stuff, thanks Dan!

[Erin Shelby]

Thanks so much, perfect explanation.

[Erin Shelby]

thanks Dan!

[Erin Shelby]

https://www.motionscript.com/expressions-lab-ae65/ik.html

[Erin Shelby]

Wow, thanks! I’ll try it out and maybe tinker with it.

[Erin Shelby]

Hey Dan, your expression worked well thanks for the help.

Slightly related, I was looking at your drummer/marker tutorial and it’s very cool. I was wondering if your arm animation in your demo had multiple different types of animation (ie: The right hand hits the drum between frames 1-10, and between frames 11-20 it flipped the drumstick in the air, and between 21-30 it did something else) – what do you think the best way would be to make a system that you could reference each animation “instance”. I was thinking maybe your marker system would work if adapted slightly (you can comment on markers, so perhaps different markers could have different comments. ie: “drumhit”, “drumstick_twirl”, etc. But I’m not sure if you can write expressions to check the comments of a marker…).

Essentially, I’m trying to figure out a system to character animate a bit easier then just swapping out heads, ligaments, etc.