Dan, you’re a genius!

Now I’m trying to figure out the ‘how’ as far the script works.

I get the linear() part and even what’s going on with the modulo.

But the ease() is confusing me a bit. How does it end up returning a 0 until the interval?

Thanks again!

Jim

My background is a database programmer turned animator and now I’m delving into Expressions in After Effects. Been doing some scripting in Houdini.

Things work differently in these timeline based applications scripting wise. I’m assuming the script is executed on every frame. That being said, I’m having difficulty trying to accomplish a rotate…

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Thanks! I’m just a former database/application programmer trying to figure out what I can and can’t do.

Not sure this is possible, but let’s say I’m wanting to ‘set’ the Source Text from another layer WITHOUT putting an expression in the sourceText of the layer I want to change.

So, something like thisComp.layer(1).sourceText = “hello world”;

So setting the sourceText as you would initialize a variable.

Is that even possible, or is the sourceText read…

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