Kalleheikki Kannisto
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COW Coin
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Ok, I see. Easiest to add a second animator and use it to overlay white on top of the animated color.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Add Fill color animator with twitter blue and an expression selector (based on words) to the text. Then use this expression:
words = text.sourceText.split(" ");
currentWord = words[textIndex-1];
if(currentWord.charAt(0)=="@"){color=100}else{color = 0};
[color,color,color]Kalleheikki Kannisto
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I would expect that sampleimage() would work to get the color value of the center point, if you precomped the layers and the null and sampled the precomp. You can make the sampling area 25 pixels wide to get an average of those pixels.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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I guess you have a reason not to precompose the lot.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Ok, in that case you want to count the number of markers that you have passed and use that number (marker index) for randomseed. Expressions don’t have a memory of what has happened in earlier frames, so you have to calculate the shuffle for every frame. The same randomseed will ensure the random calculation is the same random calculation. So you would change that at every marker.
A bit of an inconvenience is that the nearest marker can be before or after current time, so you have to check whether the marker time is after current frame, and if so, subtract one to get the index of the last marker passed.Kalleheikki Kannisto
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I don’t have experience with comps of that size, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it could easily run into memory issues.
I would create a master null and link all layers to it as you get them in place, then use the null to move the entire set of layers.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Sounds familiar…
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1136419
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Here’s one way to combine several layers transparency with set matte I just concocted.
Note the trick of inverting the mattes to combine them then inverting the combined alpha result.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Did you figure out what the difference was?
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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Which expression are you using? There are six variations in this thread.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
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