[Peter Zeet]

awesome! thanks!

uhm…is it possible to get the range in frames instead of seconds?

[Peter Zeet]

sure! thanks!

So, if anyone wants to re-create the Radio Waves effect with shape layers, there is a way:
0.Create a Shape Layer
1.Add a Slider for the delay, a Point Control (or slider) for the size control, and another for opacity control.
2.Add an ellipse (or whatever)
3. animate the Point control and Opacity Slider values as desired.
3.Add this on the Ellipse Size Property:
thisIndex=thisProperty.propertyGroup(3).propertyIndex;
e=effect("size")("Point");
d=effect("delay")("Slider")*thisComp.frameDuration*(thisIndex - 1);
e.valueAtTime(time - d)
4. add this code to the Ellipse opacity:
thisIndex=thisProperty.propertyGroup(2).propertyIndex;
e=effect("opacity")("Slider");
d=effect("delay")("Slider")*thisComp.frameDuration*(thisIndex - 1);
e.valueAtTime(time - d)
5.Duplicate the Group as many times as you need to create the waves…

It is quite time consuming vs. the Radio Waves plugin, but ideal for non pixellated ultra zooms and other custom things (different custom shapes per wave, ecc))

(and I`m sure there are many ways to make this method faster and cleaner)

Is very basic, but here is the file, just in case anyone is interested!
4894_waves.aep.zip

[Peter Zeet]

Dan, you are the light that makes the darkness dissapear

[Peter Zeet]

yes! this is image is a portion of the thing (is a big big graphic full of branches like these. Note the leader. Is scaled 100%.

(The leader has a bounce expression there).

Look at the followers shorter than the leader…
Using the first expression, if followers have scale= 0, they will follow leader`s scale exactly, right? ,but I wanted the followers to have smaller scales than 100% when the Leader is 100%.
So I added the + value and added negative start on their scale values so when they reach the leader 100%, they are 70%, 80%, ecc. (making them having a -30 as value instead of 0)

Definetely a bad approach I guess. It worked until I wanted to go deeper…

[Peter Zeet]

great!! thanks!

Now I`m adding +value

s = e.valueAtTime(time - d);
sm=[Math.max(s[0],0),Math.max(s[1],0)];
sm+value


so I can rescale down some followers… but no it doesn`t seem to work
(Now I have some follower layer with scale [-30,-30] when Lead is [0,0], so when lead is [100,100] Follower is [70,70], ans similar with other followers.. but as I added the “+value”, theMath.max thing seems not to work (when lead 0, follower keep being on -30)

[Peter Zeet]

woooo, thank you veeery much!!!!

[Peter Zeet]

yes! it`s really close! Is there a way to make the chars appear not as a whole word, but in order? (or random, but not as a whole word)
(as if you animated the in and out in a range selector)

[Peter Zeet]

I love you!
works like a charm 🙂

[Peter Zeet]

wo! it works like a charm, many thanks!!

[Peter Zeet]

mm, right now I was testing it on a new comp, just with a text layer… and just animating the x rotation animator (setting it to 90, and then animating the “amount” param.)
I`m guessing I`m totally mistaken with this approach…