[Filip Vandueren]

Did you rename the Layer-name in the first line ?

Probably something went wrong there, maybe the quotes around the name were not closed correctly.

Oh,

and there’s another error in my script (the yellow is the missing bit):

it should be:

dayCounter=linear(dateValue, startValue-1, startValue+days-1,0, days)

[Filip Vandueren]

Did you rename the Layer-name in the first line ?

Probably something went wrong there, maybe the quotes around the name were not closed correctly.

Oh,

and there’s another error in my script (the yellow is the missing bit):

it should be:

dayCounter=linear(dateValue, startValue-1, startValue+days-1,0, days)

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi,

i created a script that uses masks;

It’s much better, render-times are mcuh better:

just create a comp with 1 layer in it (movie or pre-comp), then run this script:

https://www.vandueren.be/forumstuff/jsx/maskedLines.jsx
It asks for 2 values at the beginning: line-height & time-Offset in millisecs, but you should be fine with the defaults (1 pixel, minus 1 frame).

(BTW, if you use a time-offset other than 1 frame, enable frame-blending for a much smoother result.)

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi,

i created a script that uses masks;

It’s much better, render-times are mcuh better:

just create a comp with 1 layer in it (movie or pre-comp), then run this script:

https://www.vandueren.be/forumstuff/jsx/maskedLines.jsx
It asks for 2 values at the beginning: line-height & time-Offset in millisecs, but you should be fine with the defaults (1 pixel, minus 1 frame).

(BTW, if you use a time-offset other than 1 frame, enable frame-blending for a much smoother result.)

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi,

Your date is controlled by a slider in the Numbers Effect.
We can use that value to calculate the days passed since a given day:

Make a new text-layer and give it’s “Source Text” property this expression:

dateValue=thisComp.layer("Layer with Numbers effect").effect("Numbers")(4); // change the layerName
startValue=3675; // the Slider-value at which you want the day counter to be 1
days=180; // number of days you want to count

dayCounter=linear(dateValue, startValue-1, startValue+days,0, days)

if you don’t want the value 0 to be visible untill the counter actually starts running through he days,
add these next lines:

if (dayCounter>0) {
	dayCounter;
} else {
	""
}

[Filip Vandueren]

Hi,

Your date is controlled by a slider in the Numbers Effect.
We can use that value to calculate the days passed since a given day:

Make a new text-layer and give it’s “Source Text” property this expression:

dateValue=thisComp.layer("Layer with Numbers effect").effect("Numbers")(4); // change the layerName
startValue=3675; // the Slider-value at which you want the day counter to be 1
days=180; // number of days you want to count

dayCounter=linear(dateValue, startValue-1, startValue+days,0, days)

if you don’t want the value 0 to be visible untill the counter actually starts running through he days,
add these next lines:

if (dayCounter>0) {
	dayCounter;
} else {
	""
}

[Filip Vandueren]

Ok, this is just theoretical, I’m not saying this is the best way, or that render-times will kepp you sane 😉

1. Add the comp or layer to a new comp,
2. Give it two “Linear Wipe” effects
3. The first one needs these settings:
   Transition Completion: expression: 100*((index-1)/height)
   Wipe Angle: 180

[Filip Vandueren]

Ok, this is just theoretical, I’m not saying this is the best way, or that render-times will kepp you sane 😉

1. Add the comp or layer to a new comp,
2. Give it two “Linear Wipe” effects
3. The first one needs these settings:
   Transition Completion: expression: 100*((index-1)/height)
   Wipe Angle: 180

[Filip Vandueren]

Try this:

Assuming you want maskexpansion to be 0 at scale 100 ->

scaleFactor=0.1;
(thisComp.layer("White Solid 2").scale[0]-100)/scaleFactor;

Change the “Layer 1” to the name of your layer,
and change the variable scaleFactor, to control how fast the maskexpansion works.
0.1 means a scale of 200 will give a maskexpansion of (200-100)*0.1 = 10 pixels.

Hope that’s clear.

[Filip Vandueren]

Try this:

Assuming you want maskexpansion to be 0 at scale 100 ->

scaleFactor=0.1;
(thisComp.layer("White Solid 2").scale[0]-100)/scaleFactor;

Change the “Layer 1” to the name of your layer,
and change the variable scaleFactor, to control how fast the maskexpansion works.
0.1 means a scale of 200 will give a maskexpansion of (200-100)*0.1 = 10 pixels.

Hope that’s clear.