[Navarro Parker]

How would do you a normal (non ping-pong) loop for masks?

[Navarro Parker]

This expression does not handle decimals under CS6. It rounds to the nearest whole number. Could you possibly modify it to work with current expressions?

[Navarro Parker]

Found this during a Google search and I’m getting odd results.

I have a slider set to “50.00”, but the expression is displaying “125” (no decimals or trailing zeros). I set it to “15.00” and I get “3.375”. I set the slider to “20.00”, and it displays “8”.

I realize when this was first posted, everyone was on v6.5, not CS6. Has expressions changed that much?

[Navarro Parker]

Brilliant as always!

Can you explain a little bit how that works? Are the symbols being ignored because of the .toUpperCase command? The (16) doesn’t seem to correspond to where the letters are in ASCII table.

[Navarro Parker]

How something more complicated like IPv6? (8 groups of 4 hexidecimal numbers each separated by colons)

such as: 2001:0DB8:02A2:B3FF:FE1E:FF00:0042:8329

[Navarro Parker]

That works amazingly well. But you’re right, I would like to soften out the rotation a bit. Would adding overshoot and dampening be overly complicated?

(If this was Cinema 4D, I’d just throw on a Delay effector!)

[Navarro Parker]

Works great! Thank you.

[Navarro Parker]

How about the opposite of this? So it’s just one layer visible at a time?

[Navarro Parker]

[value[0], value[1] + m, value[2]]

value + [0,m,0]

They both work fine. Is there a reason I should use one over the other?

[Navarro Parker]

Your solution works great (of course)!

Generally speaking, when should I be use (and not use) [0], [1], [2]? I thought 3D position was an array.

Also, should I be using degreesToRadians?

In the meantime, I came up with this. But it feels clunky:

x = thisComp.layer("green").transform.position[0];
y = thisComp.layer("green").transform.position[1];
z = thisComp.layer("green").transform.position[2];

input = thisComp.layer("solid").transform.rotation;
inputLow = -45;
inputHigh = 45;
outputLow = -100;
outputHigh = 100;
m = linear(input,inputLow,inputHigh,outputLow,outputHigh);
[x, y+m, z]