[Karel Hejkal]

Once again, Kevin, thanks a lot for your answer full of very useful information.

Not sure how can I give it back, but in case you ever needed something to do with graphic, be sure you can google and contact me.

Cheers,

Karel

[Karel Hejkal]

Hello Kevin,

thanks a lot. Helped and saved a lot of time.

May I ask you more one little “side” question? I do work with AE very rarely. Usually once, twice a year. And it is not easy for me to manage to learn with such time lags in between. Usually I even forget the few shortcuts I have learned. Yet I have tried to search for some step by step Action script learning guide that would help me to cope the easiest, yet for me unreachable problems such as this one was. But I have never found anything that I would find easy enough for beginners so far.

Would you have some recommendation for some book or site that would help to learn from the tiniest steps to lets say semi experienced examples I could use for learning?

Anyway, thanks a lot, I’m into the making the animation alive ????

[Karel Hejkal]

Hi, Michael,

thank you a lot. That does exactly that kind of trick I needed. And because I am working with more lights in the project, I will definitely use it to save a lot of time and nerves.

I owe you a beer 🙂

/<.

[Karel Hejkal]

OK. New day, new fresh idea… I did solved this one. By using a mathematical expression for spiral (that I googled) and adding a time*speed to X value. It looks like this:

radius=100
angle=time*200
x=(radius*Math.cos(degreesToRadians(angle)))-(time*21)
y=radius*Math.sin(degreesToRadians(angle))
z=0
centre=[1790,760,0]
add(centre,[x,y,z])

Yet if I would need any other moving path, lets say round a person’s silhouette, the path I can not express by mathematics, I would be stuck. So if anyone knows the principle solution, I would be glad to learn it.