[Justin Maloney]

That could work. But the other animators I’m making this for would be thrown for a loop for with a control like that. It was for a character rig I’m building. I wanted to make it so they could easily select a different hair style, nose style, wardrobe, etc, with drop down boxes. I stuck with check box controls for each option.

thisComp.layer(“Hair Styles”).effect(“Emo Swoosh”)(“Checkbox”) *100

But I’ll keep what you showed me in mind for other things =D

[Justin Maloney]

That worked! =D Yay!

Thanks again for the solution, and the knowledge!

[Justin Maloney]

Sorry for the bump. I read this thread and the expression worked for me =D

However, when I tried to add more frames I ran into a problem.

I’m trying to switch between 5 frames of a cartoon nose for a character rig I’m working on. Two 90 degree angles (frame 0 and 4), two 45 degree angles (frame 1 and 3), and one center drawing (frame 2).

When I move the layer they’re linked to “Eye_Marker” the nose layer cycles through all the frames, except the last one, frame 4.

I’ve gone over it, and I’m completely stumped. Is there a limit to how many times you can use “else if”?

x = comp("H.M. Character Rig").layer("Eye_Marker (CONTROL)").transform.position[0];

if (x < -200) f = 0;

else if (x < -80) f = 1;

else if (x > 170) f = 3;

else if (x > 250) f = 4;

else f = 2;

framesToTime(f);

[Justin Maloney]

Thanks Dan! For the solution and the knowledge!

[Justin Maloney]

Just found a solution, for anybody who is interested. I just added a “+” between the two lines.

thisComp.layer("Stopper").transform.yPosition + wiggle(effect("Frequency")("Slider"),effect("Amplitude")("Slider"))

[Justin Maloney]

[Dan Ebberts] “It might not be practical for expressions. “

I figured this might be the case.

I’m trying to make a 3D culture flask with liquid that sort of adheres to gravity (as in you tilt the flask and the liquid remains level) Normally I’d just animate this by hand and be done with it. But I’m building this and other stuff for scientists who aren’t good at animating but want good looking and practical assets.

If I find an answer to this I’ll post it here.

[Justin Maloney]

I actually solved this on my own. I’ll share too, since it was a pretty stupid mistake.

If your using split clips for your textures, make sure to set it to split clip stretch (or loop) and not Split Clip – Play Once

[Justin Maloney]

Sorry for the late reply.

I’m using Windows 7 Professional

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80 Ghz 2.80 GHz

6 gigs of ram

Adobe After Effects CS4 version 9.0