[Mira Etler]

thanks dan.
makes perfect sense, actually.

m

[Mira Etler]

to clarify:

when i said:
“My first indication based on the docs was that the 3rd is that the range selector would be defining this, ”

i meant:
“My first indication (based on the docs) of the selectorValue was that the range selector would be defining this value,”

[Mira Etler]

if the position was mapped out with a for loop and the xysizes were scaled independently, then you could do it pretty easily, no?

as for the colors, easy way is to have a hue/sat effect on a layer and offset the hue param.

-mira

[Mira Etler]

Excellent.

Thanks, Dan; exactly what I was looking for.

f

[Mira Etler]

Let me also clarify something else:
I am getting *exactly* what I want otherwise…
Just trying to get the layer with an expression on it (the follower that’s looking at the leader layer) to auto-orient within the window time (before the offset kicks in- the layer has to go that amount of keyframes in before picking up data at the beginning of the leader’s positional motion) that there’s no

…I’m thinking an IF statement is the only way to do it and that I simply haven’t refined my IF statement well enough yet.

Thanks,
f

[Mira Etler]

AFAIK, Dan’s page (which I have viewed) doesn’t address this type of issue that I’m mentioning.

If you set a specific negative offset for the current layer (holding the expression) to grab from and there is no positional data at that time-location, then AE simply gives you the position for the current layer before the expression was applied which in this case is nothing.

I’ll try to look at Dan’s page in more detail and see if I can’t solve it that way, but the example that I posted seems to demonstrate the prob, no?

thanks,
f