nice. that looks much better!

Het Filip,

I suspected as much. 😞

But thank you for confirming.

Pete

Hey, I have some type set to ‘per character 3D’ that is restricted to a circular mask, imagine type orbiting around a planet. I’m trying to get the type opacity to go to 0 when facing away from the camera.

I’ve tried using both Dan Ebbert’s

toCompVec([0, 0, 1])[2] > 0 ? value : 0

and setting up a fade based on distance from camera, but both work on…

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This seems to do the pause thing…

spd = effect("speed")("Slider");  // pixels per second
pause = effect("pause")("Slider"); // pause divider
startIndex = 3;
endIndex = 7;
curIndex = startIndex;
accumTime = prevAccum = 0;
while (accumTime <= time){
	curLayer = thisComp.layer(curIndex);
	preLayer = thisComp.layer(curIndex+1);
	curRect =…

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Hey Dan, Amazing!

The only thing I forgot to mention is that I need it in 3D 😬 – as I’m parenting a camera to the null.

I seems to work though if the Null stays 2D.

The dynamic pause is required because the boxes contain text, so the bigger the boxes Y dimension, the more text the box contains and the longer you need to read it.

Obviously, ChatGTP…

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this kind of works, but the transition and pause duration are not dynamic…

// Set the duration of each transition and pause period in seconds
transitionDuration = 2;
pauseDuration = 2;
// Define the start and end layer indices
startLayerIndex = 3; // Change this to match the index of the starting layer
endLayerIndex = 7; // Change this to match the…

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I’m trying to cook up an an expression that moves a null from the position of a start layer (index ‘x’), then move to the next layers position (index ‘x+1’) and pause. The null then moves to the next layer (index ‘x+2’) and pause, and so on until the final layer is reached.

(I’m using shape layers with a rectangle)

The code needs to define the…

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Yeah I got it working in the end with…

m = thisComp.layer("Captions");
n=0;
fs = text.sourceText.style.fontSize * 1000/effect("boxWidth")("Slider");
if (m.marker.numKeys > 0){
  n = m.marker.nearestKey(time).index;
  if (m.marker.key(n).time > time) n--;
}
if (n >…

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As always, amazing! Works like a charm.

Is there a way that if after its been split over two lines and it’s still too long, that it could be split over 3, and then 4 lines etc etc

I’ve also been trying to use this script….

Paragraph bouding control

but as my text is being driven by marker comments, it doesn’t work.

P

I’ve been trying something similar by hacking the original expression in this thread to get a subtitle to add a line break if the width of the text object goes above a certain length.

This seems to be working…

txt = thisComp.layer("Captions").text.sourceText;
dist = thisComp.layer("Captions").sourceRectAtTime().width;
Wguide = thisComp.layer("width…

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Is anyone else have massive memory leaks on their M1 Mac Laptops using C4D 2023?

I seem to spend a couple of hours a day wrangling crashes & reboots. The memory goes up to 130GB and then locks the whole system requiring a hard restart.

Anyone or just me?

P

Amazing as always Dan!

(you’d think by now I’d know this stuff!)

Thank you.

I’, try to get a shape layer rectangle to change to a random size and hold, which the below does admirably….

holdTime = .5; //time to hold each position (seconds)
minVal = 100;
maxVal = 1000;
seed = Math.floor(time/holdTime);
seedRandom(seed,true);
x =random(minVal,maxVal);
y = value[1];
[x, y]

However, I want it to blend between those values over ‘n’…

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weird. Now it works. Amazing!

Thanks Filip

still doesn’t work.

I tried several permutations & still nothing

I cannot get the expression to ‘find a character in a string of text and replace it’ to work.

I’ve been combing the web and trying all the examples & I either get a syntax error (invalid or unexpected token) or it doesn’t do anything.

For example: I have a text layer with every character in the alphabet like this…

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

I then…

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as usual, moments after posting I found a solution….

linear(time%2, 1, 2,0,100)

I’m trying to set up an expression that loops 3 values & can’t get it to work.

for example; opacity is 0% at 0 seconds, 0% at 1 second, the 100% at 2 seconds & then goes back to 0%.

I’d usually just keyframe this and then add a loopOut expression, but I want to be able to control the time between values with a slider to control speed.

Any idea how to…

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Hey Dan – long time no brain pick! Thanks for looking at this.

It didn’t work for me I’m afraid & not I’m sure I understand why.

I’ve attached a reduced version to help illustrate it better…

In ‘CompNames’ I have a single text layer that I’ve named ‘Russia’.

I need the code to ‘look into’ CompAreas and find the layer that starts with…

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I have a comp with Country names as text layers, in the correct x & y positions to match a mercator projection. Lets call this ‘CompNames’

I have another comp with each country as a text layer with there land area is part of the name. So for example; Russia,66000 or Germany,5643. Let’s call this ‘CompAreas’

What I want to do is add an… Read more