[Justin Crowell]

Sorry to waffle on this but…it looks like my client wants it the way I had it initially, so:

Basically I just want to emulate what it looks like if you add a linear keyframe to the offset every time we hit a marker. So I’d like to use either a linear or ease function to go to the next offset value each time we arrive at a marker. No need to do the complex fade-down stuff, I think.

[Justin Crowell]

You’re a genius, Dan. Thanks again for everything.

[Justin Crowell]

I have a path that is animating constantly with the path parameter itself keyframed. When a certain end-point is triggered, I want that path to smoothly animate to its end-state. And it’s different for each asset I’m doing, so I want to be able to just drag the marker to set that end-point.

I would have done it with scale or something like that, but unfortunately the project was handed to me with animated paths.

[Justin Crowell]

Thanks Dan. I think the problem with this is that I’m using ValueAtTime to animate between two paths, which is why I was trying to do it all with the frame number. Looks like I can’t ease between two paths this way.

[Justin Crowell]

Whelp…I guess I spoke too soon. It only works if there are no keyframes on the timeline after the marker point. If there ARE keyframes, it kind of bounces back and forth between my easing expression and whatever those keyframes are doing. So it’s super jumpy. I wonder how to ignore those keyframes.

[Justin Crowell]

Wow, I’m kind of proud of myself…figured this out on my own! Here is what I used:

markerTime = thisLayer.marker.key(“End”).time;

if (time>=markerTime) {

z = ease(time,markerTime,markerTime+1,markerTime,20);

valueAtTime(z);

}

else {valueAtTime(time);}

[Justin Crowell]

Thanks again, Dan! We actually adjusted the gap to 14 frames for now and that seemed to fix it, but I will check this one out as well. Appreciate your time.

[Justin Crowell]

Hey Dan,

The expression works great–but it looks like it has sort of a hitch at around 4 seconds (video attached). IF it helps, I’m working in 23.98.

Thanks again for the help!

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[Justin Crowell]

This is amazing! Thank you so much, Dan!

[Justin Crowell]

Thanks so much Dan! And yes, definitely want the motion to all occur around the same position.

The only issue here is that I need the object to move for 5 frames, pause for 15, and repeat.