[Gabriel Ferrão]

Hey, I have the exact same question as you (different application, however).

The suggestions here are helpful, but not quite what you were talking about….

I’d love to know what you ended up doing.

Thanks!

[Gabriel Ferrão]

I was about to make a post about how this wasn’t working for me, but I found out that if you mess with the scale values, it’ll throw off the calculations.
Not a big deal in my case, but any way we can create an expression that is scale-independent?

Now I just need to figure out how to convert the generated orientation values back into rotation values….

[Gabriel Ferrão]

Anyone got an answer for this?
I need to achieve the same effect.
Thanks!

[Gabriel Ferrão]

I was able to achieve a tail-like effect (where the wave gets progressively larger) using wave warp’s pinning option, and a mesh warp.
Here’s what it looks like

[Gabriel Ferrão]

Hi there,

Is it possible to change the value within “” with a slider?

I’ve got a layer that has three effects (Red Giant’s Sound Keys). Inside each of these effects, there are three values that are of interest to me.

I’d like to write an expression (using sliders), where I can toggle between the three different effects, and within that, toggle between those three different values.

Here is the string I’m trying to alter:

thisComp.layer(“SOUNDKEYS”).effect(“Sound Keys 3”)(“Output 1”)

I was hoping that I could select the number 3, for example, and pick-whip that to a slider, but it didn’t work.
Then I decided to use what someone suggested earlier and do something like

S=effect(“SOUNDKEYS #”)(“Slider”);
thisComp.layer(“SOUNDKEYS”).effect(“Sound Keys S”)(“Output 1”)

But the result is that “Sound Keys S” is missing or does not exist.

Hope that makes sense…
I’m trying to avoid going into the expression and manually changing the numeric values, since I’d have to do that countless times.
Thanks!

[Gabriel Ferrão]

This creates that conical gradient from photoshop. don’t know of another way to create it in AE.

Yeah, this post is old… So? Hopefully my reply will help someone – you’re welcome.

[Gabriel Ferrão]

Found a solution for creating a conical gradient, just like in photoshop!

1) Create new solid.
2) Apply Gradient Ramp effect, and make a LEFT TO RIGHT gradient
3) Apply Polar Coordinates effect, crank the interpolation to 100%, and change the type of Conversion to Rect to Polar

Voilá!