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Philip Ames
June 12, 2014 at 5:22 pm in reply to: “Watch_Dogs” skill tree effect

that’s great, thank you. i had the outer connections figured out, but it was how everything responded to the movement of the inner circle that’s puzzled me – like when ‘red’ expands, ‘yellow’ and ‘blue’ contract. i think this might definitely help.
Philip Ames
June 11, 2014 at 4:02 pm in reply to: Scaling up affects position of neighbor layers (avoid overlap)

Mayra Vescovi’s tutorial definitely helped with understanding what’s required. i got it to work too, with some tweaks for personal preference

https://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/building-a-grid-like-layout-using-basic-expressions–ae-16108

i also see a bunch of your ‘grid’ snippets that i’m going to investigate when i don’t have to do actual work!
Philip Ames
June 10, 2014 at 6:41 pm in reply to: Scaling up affects position of neighbor layers (avoid overlap)

Many thanks again, Dan. i’m gonna go and try to figure out how i might be able to do that
Philip Ames
June 10, 2014 at 6:18 pm in reply to: Scaling up affects position of neighbor layers (avoid overlap)

ouch, that was so obvious it actually hurt. thank you.

i hope it isn’t a huge suck on your time if i ask you why the script might, when applied to my 3×3 grid (9 layers), it rearranges the 9 blocks into a diagonal line, starting at (-168 x,-448 y to 1448 x,1168 y)? in fact, if i just use 3 layers, it makes the blocks line up diagonally too.

thanks in advance
Philip Ames
June 6, 2014 at 1:20 pm in reply to: Scaling up affects position of neighbor layers (avoid overlap)

phenomenal, thank you. still poring over the X&Y version, as it’s currently setting up a 3×3 (*edited*) grid in a diagonal line. trying to figure out why. and trying by myself lol

can i ask, in the X vs Y set up, why the “value” difference in the last line? is the placement significant?

X axis version - [(thisComp.width - totalWidth)/2 + myX,value[1]] Y axis version - [value[0], (thisComp.height - totalHeight)/2 + myY]
Philip Ames
June 5, 2014 at 10:02 pm in reply to: Scaling up affects position of neighbor layers (avoid overlap)

this is a huge help, Mr Ebberts, and works like a charm. thank you.

i was wondering, though, if you’d have a moment (or the inclination) to break this apart. i’m trying to make this work on the Y axis and, eventually, on the X and Y together, and it might help if i understood better where the axis are controlled from.

many thanks in anticipation