[Jake Nelson-dooley]

Thanks Filip, your code helped me get this working!\

If anyone wants to know, the mistake I made originally was to use this.position inside of the transform effect:
easeOut(time,inPoint,inPoint+durationIn,[this.position[0],this.position[1]-x_distance],[this.position[0],this.position[1]]);

I realize now the transform effect position values are constant at [960,540] for a 1080p composition.

Besides that, Filip’s linear wipe approach is better than the “alpha box” I had before. I just added a transform effect to his code so the text slides up and down while it’s being revealed.

Cheers!

[Jake Nelson-dooley]

You should be able to use the same tag for both, right-click > Simulation > Rigid body

Then in the Rigid body tag for the floor or plane, on the Dynamics tab, change Dynamic to off

[Jake Nelson-dooley]

Doesn’t look like a sky object to me, could be wrong of course!

If I were recreating this, I’d drop the texture on a plane or sphere, or sweep nurbs for the ribbon (duplicated in transparency channel) and position it in the background.

[Jake Nelson-dooley]

To me it looks like an animated texture that’s applied to a plane. Check out this result for “After Effects halftone dots”: https://provideocoalition.com/ryoung/story/halftone-techniques-for-after-effects1

You could position the plane way back along the z-axis so that it moves with everything else, but slightly less than the mid-ground and foreground objects.

[Jake Nelson-dooley]

Same. It’s a super useful effect… when it works.

[Jake Nelson-dooley]

News to me. Thanks Adam!

[Jake Nelson-dooley]

I’ve figured that I can use the method from the Nudge script along with timeRemap.keyTime()

This seems to loop through the keyframes and copy, delete, paste onto the next nearest frame.

The problem I’m having now is if there are keyframes one-after-another. Then the script seems to create gaps. Anders mentioned this was a caveat of the script…

[Jake Nelson-dooley]

Andy, did you ever figure out a solution to this problem besides adjusting each keyframe by hand?

[Jake Nelson-dooley]

And yet I’m still missing something… really all I’m trying to do is create a nice looking nebula cloud, and then freeze it, so I can pan around or fly through it.

[Jake Nelson-dooley]

I just realized that why I couldn’t stop particle births, it had to do with another piece of xpresso (not in the pic). Thanks
-Jake