[Jerry Fines]

Thanks, it did work. I am trying a variation on this now where I don’t even have to keyframe the diagonal movement, perhaps you could help…

In this variation I am trying to get the solid to move (from its starting location) only in positive movements in the X plane (so from left to right) and in negative movements in the Y plane (so from top to bottom. I am trying to get it to move a random distance (min/max random) every ‘phase’ (30 frames or so). I think this would be like your grid expression, but the circles in your expression would never go ‘back’, they’d just keep going in one direction. Is this possible? Maybe I should just keyframe.

[Jerry Fines]

I was thinking of using a slider, but that may not be the best solution. I saw you’re using markers to animate tutorial, do you think that solution could work?

[Jerry Fines]

wow, that worked really nicely, thanks! Would you know how to do the second part of my problem expression? Where I would like the pellet/dot to fade out over time after it has been dropped?

-Jerry

[Jerry Fines]

nevermind, there seems to be something much more dubious going on. the code works in its own comp, but something else in this comp is keeping it from acting normal. sorry.

[Jerry Fines]

thanks. in ‘user interface colors’ I can make the interface a dark grey, but is there anyway I can make it black?

[Jerry Fines]

Wow Dan, thanks that really worked! It’s true you guys definitely know what you’re doing here!

I was wondering, just out of curiosity, would it be possible to also change the ‘speed’ of the aforementioned loopOut? In other words, now that I have them all slightly unsynced, would it be further possible to make some loops go faster/slower then other loops using an expression code?