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Sam Beckett replied to the discussion Move a layer according to its own location in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:06:28 +0000

Thank you Dan.

I tried to add two slider controls that get the value of position. Then I tried to real these values.

I have 3 layers but only one has expressions.

Slider Control X :

Initialized to 1 (blue value)

transform.position[0]

Slider Control Y :

Initialized to 1

transform.position[1]

Layer Position :

Initialized to [1000,500]

seedRandom(0, timeless =…

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 23:56:01 +0000

Thanks a lot for your reply Dan.

I don’t expect any problem because each layer at a time makes a move (of any defined value) then the next frame launches the process again.

But without considering this, let’s imagine the comp has only one layer. How would you move it according to its current location ?

Here is a random example :

During this frame :
if…

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 23:19:45 +0000

Hi I would like to move a layer according to its own location.

Here is an example with its current location :

[transform.position[0] + 100 , transform.position[1]]

According to time, the layer doesn’t move because I cannot read the red value of each position axis.

Here is an example with its previous location :

x =…