[Patrick Grossien]

aaaah! I tried the “numProperties” reference before, but it didn’t work (gave me a number that wasn’t correct). Maybe I had it linked wrong or some other reference before or between layer and content.

Thanks Dan, you’re a life saver! This totally did it!

[Patrick Grossien]

Hi Andre, tbh, I don’t see the pixelation. Maybe you can mark it in the screenshot!?

Only thing I noticed is that you’re comparing a 200% with a 66% view, so for us, it’s hard to tell what it should look like.. but maybe that’s already the solution? Set both to 100% and compare again.

[Patrick Grossien]

Try not using the offset, but the start/ end values for fade in/out stuff. The offset is if you set a range and want to move text parts … something like that: ooooooOOOOoo — oOOOOooooooo

[Patrick Grossien]

you can export and package a copy of that timeline if you like and send it over. I can dig into it.

[Patrick Grossien]

Hi! It is hard to tell for me from this point, what should it look like at the end? That might help. To figure out what is going on.

EDIT: I would check if the pre-comps are set perfectly – cropped to IN OUT points / same length? First and Last keyframes checked in the pre-comp? Maybe also just reset the loop to see if there is a difference. also, I mainly just use “loopOut();” for stuff like that, so I can make sure nothing ends up in between.

[Patrick Grossien]

It seems, that Dan’s update to the script which I found here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=227&postid=12037&univpostid=12037&pview=t

seems to work. Weirdly enough I tried that out earlier and then it didn’t work. Don’t know what I did in between anymore ????

If anybody wants to have the Comp, just let me know.

[Patrick Grossien]

I wanted to do the same thing, but since I needed it to show DoF, the common workarounds didn’t cut it for me.

My solution is a rectangular shape 3D layer which uses length and lookAt to connect the dots – no pun intended ???? It’s basically nice cos / sin math packed into readily available commands.

Rectangle path / Size:
distance = length(thisComp.layer("Layer1").transform.position, thisComp.layer("Layer2"). transform.position);
[20,distance]
I used a slider on that same layer to control the width (x) value instead of a fixed value:
[effect("Stroke")("Slider")[0],distance]
Rectangle path / Position:
posDiff = content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").size[1]/2;
[0,posDiff]

Transform / Position:
thisComp.layer("Layer1").transform.position
Transform / Orientation:
lookAt(thisComp.layer("Layer1").transform.position, thisComp.layer("Layer2").transform.position)

Then in my example, the circles are auto-oriented towards camera to look like spheres.

The problem I’m having, is that the rectangle should auto orient towards camera in width only. Because right now, depending on the viewing angle, the lines look different in size/width because of the 3D distortion of the flat layer. Basically, I believe, that I would only need to auto-orient the Y-rotation for it to work, but Dan’s script doesn’t work for me here, which is probably because of the script in the orientation parameter….

[Patrick Grossien]

Oh man, thanks a ton! I guess I missed the memo on that! ????

Patrick

[Patrick Grossien]

Hey Paul & Alex,

I am trying to access the line spacing via getStyleAt.
But I always keep getting the error that getStyleAt is not a function.

thisComp.layer("TextLayer").text.sourceText.charAt(2)

for example works fine, but

thisComp.layer("TextLayer").text.sourceText.getStyleAt(2)

returns the error.

I tried to debug by putting the code into a sourceText of a second layer, so I can get a visual of the returned data. So far no luck.

I’m working with 17.0.4 CC.

Any hints on how to make use of these new expressions?

Thanks a ton!
Patrick

thisComp.layer("TextLayer").text.sourceText.getStyleAt(2)

[Patrick Grossien]

[Sorry for the double post – I’m just not sure if the reply was done in the correct place.]

Dan, this is fabulous. Much better than the numbers effect because of the better font control!

Is there a way to control the start and end date via keyframes instead of the rate?
And also: is there a way to add a time counter to it so I can also end at any given date & time?

Thanks so much!