Thanks Dan! I still have trouble with all the Math functions, so generally I avoid them. I’ll try to make sense of what you did 😉

Found another thread that helped me get the distribution in the image (I also needed to avoid the area of the screen)

The expression ended up like this:

seedRandom(index,true);

var center = [width/2,height/2];

var r = center[0]+thisComp.layer(“NULL “).effect(“RADIUS”)(“Slider”);

var pX = random(center[0]-r,center[0]+r);

if (pX > 0 && pX < width){

pY =…

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Hello!

I’m trying to randomly distribute several (a lot of) layers inside the area of a circle of radius “r” (controlled by a slider). I have this:

const r = 3000; // AT 3000 (>2200) JUST SO IT DOESN’T CRASH

seedRandom(index,true);

var center = [width/2,height/2];

var pos = [0,0];

var dist = length(pos,center); // BY DEFAULT IT’S AT 2200

while (dist >…

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I knew you would be the one to solve this! I had to adapt it a bit to fit my original plan, which was to have a line snap to the corner of an ellipse as if it was touching it. I’ll upload the results, this is the finished line of expression:

// LAYERS

posP = thisComp.layer(“LINHA: Path 1 [1.1.2]”).transform.position;

bola =…

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Hey, have you checked if your client’s After Effects is using the legacy version of the expression language?

Another possibility is different languages on the program itself, if you’re using it as en_US and he’s using another language, it could cause issues.

I’ve made this example to simplify the original situation; The red circle has the following expression in its position:

a = thisComp.layer(“CIRCLE-BLUE”);

b = a.toWorld(a.transform.anchorPoint);

c = thisComp.layer(“CIRCLE-BLUE”).content(“Ellipse 1”).content(“Ellipse Path 1”).size;

[ (b[0]+c[0]/2) , b[1] ]

It is using the blue circle size to be…

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Worked like a charm! Thanks a lot

Hey! Thanks for your time.

So I have a shape layer with 2 keyframes in its scale from 0 to 100 with a specific easing. I wanted to use the LoopOut PingPong expression in such a manner that the animation randomly holds, for a random duration, at both 0 and 100 before continuing with the loop.

It would look like this: the shape goes from 0 to 100…

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I have this 2D eye that I want to animate as it were looking around, but I can’t figure out how to make the pupil dissapear once it leaves the eye “border”… I’m using octane so I can’t use the transparency workflow…. Any one know what could be done? Thanks a lot!

Hello! I’m wondering if there’s a way to make the earpieces of my character swing along with the head movement automatically, like an expression, or something?