[Kees Fluitman]

Thank you very much. It seems so simple when you do it.

So why do you use the Math.max? It seems to work without?

I simply wanted to make it too complicated by getting a checkbox or slider extra, which was much harder to check when the frame was that it went on. Just double work. This works perfectly fine! Thank you.

Would it be smart to do more work in just Java or Python to get a better understanding of scripting? Maybe a course or sth similar?

[Kees Fluitman]

ah i see. Ye of course, It needs to check each frame every frame to get value f, the frame where the trigger happened.
Then I will need to write a code (to the time remap), that can tell at which frame it needs to be (f+t) i’m guessing? where t is timeinframes – f? and if, of course the target hasnt been reached, stay at 0.

[Kees Fluitman]

So I’ve worked around a little. I used your audio trigger to make a slider count the amount of gunshots.
Then I started to write an expression for the time remapping of Bullet 1, so that it will play when the slider is 1.

It triggers, but it doesnt play the animation properly. It starts at 1 for instance? Is there sth wrong with how I want to get the time at which the slider becomes 1?

slider = thisComp.layer(“control”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”);
check = effect(“Checkbox Control”)(“Checkbox”);
frame = Math.round(time / thisComp.frameDuration);

if(slider == 0)
{
0
}
else if(slider => 1)
{
t = time – frame * thisComp.frameDuration;
linear(time, t, 15, 0, 5)
}

[Kees Fluitman]

exactly! I’ve seen similar expressions like this, but couldnt get it to work by changing it. It would keep switching between 0 and 1.

[Kees Fluitman]

Dude, you’re my hero. It is actually true. It all looks weird in the wmp player, but it looks fine if I use it in OBS or After Effects.

[Kees Fluitman]

https://tweakers.net/ext/f/HiJiq5RkGTQjZ2LgLCn81FkC/full.png
https://tweakers.net/ext/f/VcFtyqAWY0N1T6iQCRJaD7AV/full.png

[Kees Fluitman]

sorry. guess sth went wrong with that website.

I have no solid BG.

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[Kees Fluitman]

Your questions made me think of a solution.

At first I refused to put the shape in the center of it’s layer. Because I wanted to have the end result in the corner of my screen, rotating and scaling. The scale would mean part of the shape would be out of bounds.

But in the end. I did put it in the center and just moved the layer as a whole while scaling the shape. This way it works fine. I just need to fine tune the timing.