[Mikael Holmström]

Lovely, thank you very much!

Mikael

[Mikael Holmström]

This sounds great, but I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong: why it keeps putting the dragged comp inside the other comp, as a new layer? /Mikael

[Mikael Holmström]

Thanks, Dan, this really got me going in the right direction! I’m about to build myself the slowest particle generator of all times (but with the powerful benefit of having full control over each particle) 🙂

[Mikael Holmström]

Thanks, Andrei!
Mikael

[Mikael Holmström]

On the second text layer (the one to the right), add the code below to the position property. Make sure not to mess with the scale property of the first text layer (the one to the left).
//Mikael

value+[thisComp.layer("Text layer 1").sourceRectAtTime(time).width, 0];

[Mikael Holmström]

Lovely, now it works.
Many thanks

[Mikael Holmström]

Thanks.
Unfortunately it doesn’t work.
Do I have to activate this features somehow to make it work?
Other new features, such as dropdown menu expression control works.

[Mikael Holmström]

Try making your needles and target 3d layers, then copy this expression to the needles Orientation property.

You may need to tweak the Rotation properties of the needles to make this work properly. Try +90 degrees on X and Y Rotation.

lookAt(thisComp.layer("Null 1").position, position);

[Mikael Holmström]

Try making your needles and target 3d layers, then copy this expression to the needles Orientation property.

You may need to tweak the Rotation properties of the needles to make this work properly. Try +90 degrees pm X and Y Rotation.

Mikael

lookAt(thisComp.layer("Your target").position,position);

[Mikael Holmström]

The way I would approach this is to calculate the distances between different track points.
As an example, this expression calculates the size of mouth. To be copied to the Size property of an Rectangle Path.

L = thisComp.layer("Videoclip")

mL = L.effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Left");
mR = L.effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Right");
mT = L.effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Top");
mB = L.effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Bottom");

[length(mL, mR), length(mT, mB)]