[Filip Vandueren]

Hey Venkat, I included the project file, so you can examine the code.

I just thought that it looked like a mirrored sinewave, multiplied by the height of a circle (the extremes always are flat), and so I implemented that, with a slider that controls if we’re viewing a “1” multiplied by a circle or the sines multiplied by a circle.

The resulting shape has “rotobezier” checked and some round corners to help with the smoothness.

I think some other examples in your GIF are actually in 3D, not sure if the original animation was done in After Effects at all.

[Filip Vandueren]

Just as a sanity check: have you cleared the cache ? I can’t replicate the problem.

[Filip Vandueren]

I would do it with Maths and epxressions, like this:

https://imgur.com/a/o6RQOFf

wobbly circle

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[Filip Vandueren]

Yes? Brie?

[Filip Vandueren]

Here’s one way of how to do it:

s = effect("A to B")("Slider");
startP = effect("Callout Start")("Point");
endP = effect("Callout End")("Point");
midP = effect("Callout Middle")("Point");
linear(s, 0, 0.5, startP,midP)
+
linear(s, 0.5, 1, midP,endP)
-midP;

or like this:

s = effect("A to B")("Slider");
startP = effect("Callout Start")("Point");
endP = effect("Callout End")("Point");
midP = effect("Callout Middle")("Point");
if (s<0.5) {
	linear(s, 0, 0.5, startP,midP)
} else {
	linear(s, 0.5, 1, midP,endP)
}

You may want to “balance” the timting midpoint, because if it is not located equally distant from start and end, then the animation would speed up/slow down before and after 0.5.

This is a possible way to do that:

s = effect("A to B")("Slider");
startP = effect("Callout Start")("Point");
endP = effect("Callout End")("Point");
midP = effect("Callout Middle")("Point");
midWay = length(startP, midP) / (length(startP, midP) + length(midP, endP));
if (s<midWay) {
	linear(s, 0, midWay, startP,midP)
} else {
	linear(s, midWay, 1, midP,endP)
}

[Filip Vandueren]

Of course My implementation of using text has its own shotcomings, but apart from that; offsetting bezier curves is mathematically a difficult problem as you can read here:

https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/#offsetting

[Filip Vandueren]

BTW, the German convention is to use a space between the number and the %: “12,34 %”, if you don’t want that, nl_NL has the convention to not use a space: “12,34%”

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi Tiberiu,

try this:

.setText((thisLayer.clamp(textValue, textLow, textHigh)/100).toLocaleString("de-DE", {style: "percent", minimumFractionDigits: textNumOfDecimals, maximumFractionDigits: textNumOfDecimals}))

[Filip Vandueren]

I believe you will have almost exactly the same problem if you want do to an offset paths in shape-layers or even in illustrator: if the curves are too sharp, then mathematically they will “fold over” themselves.

I think the easiest solution is to tweak the design so the corners are less pointy

[Filip Vandueren]

Hey Nikki, I can’t see the screenshots.