Hi Willhelm!

Yep, if you select the layer or layers that you want to loop (or any keyframes on those layers) then you can create a loop expression on all of them at once.

Hope it’s useful to you! 🙂

-f

If I understand correctly what you’re after (apologies if I don’t!) then the simplest way might be to create a null layer for each piece of text as a sort of locator-null.

That way, you can parent the locator-null to the map you’re scaling up and then create an expression on the text layer position to link it to the position of the locator null…

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Hi all!
A while ago I made a script panel to automatically add looping expressions to your keyframes. It’s been a pretty big timesaver for me, so I thought I’d pop it on my website in case anyone else might find it useful.

https://frankmansfield.co.uk/stuff/loop.php

(It can also add loops to keyframes on shape layers, which saves me having to…

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holey moley… 🙂

This is way above my pay-grade. I’ll be back in about 2 weeks after I’ve unpicked some of this madness!

Thanks, Filip, that’s brilliant, cheers
-f

Cheers Filip – I’ll switch that out, thanks for the heads-up!

What I was chasing up was whether there was a simpler way of subtracting/adding the multidimensional arrays together. Having to for-loop through seems a bit long-winded – I figured there might be a way of just subtracting one array from another? A sort of “sub (arr1 , arr2)” that works…

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just realised i never included the expression as it stands, sorry!

something like this, but without the unnecessary clunk…

if ( numKeys > 0 && time > key(numKeys).time) {
	//continue out
	keyframeTime = key(numKeys).time;
	offsetKeyframeTime = key(numKeys).time - framesToTime(1);
	framesMultiplier = timeToFrames(time - keyframeTime);
	endingPointsArray…

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<div>Hi!</div>

I’m trying to make a sort of super-simple loopOut(continue) expression that works on shape layers. I’m basically taking the points and tangents information from the end keyframe and from one frame before that and then adding the difference back onto the original end value (multiplied by how many frames past the end key frame we…

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Thanks Matt!

I was literally trying that just last night, but came across the problem that it doesn’t bring up an error unless it’s before or after the keyframe range. Although now I come to think of it, if we’re being *really* filthy, I could just move the playhead to after the last keyframe to force the error…

Like you say, still feels a bit…

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Hi!

I’ve been using a little looping script that I made a few years ago to automatically add looping expressions to properties. It basically has some settings in the tool window then applies different looping expressions to the properties depending on what you’ve selected.

The problem is that if I try to apply it to a path property in a shape layer…

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Cheers for having a bash anyway, Dave, much appreciated! 🙂

Hi Long

This is probably a question for the expressions forum. I have had a bash at this, but my solution is pretty clunky and amateurish (anything even approaching real maths is way above my expression pay-grade!).

I’ve attached the test project I was playing with for you to have a look at, but basically I put this expression on the position…

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You’ve almost certainly already tried this, but it would be remiss not to double-check that you haven’t simply toggled the Source Name / Layer Name button above the layers?

This would switch back for everything if you tried to change any one of the layer names, so this probably doesn’t help, but just on the slim off-chance that this is the solution….

That’s what I thought too, but nope.

It’s repeatable in a new scene – if you create a shape then try to copy the content/Rectangle/Transform:Rectangle/Scale values to the layer’s normal scale properties then you get the same error message.

AFX must store the values differently for some reason, I was just wondering if anyone could explain it to me!

Cheers
-f

Hi

Just a quick question to see if anyone can solve my boggle!

I had a shape layer that had been animated on the scale property inside it’s own shape transform set (not the layer’s general transforms, but the transforms inside the Contents section).

I was trying to copy scale keyframes from the shape transform to the layer transform, but it wouldn’t…

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