[Scott Mcgee]

You can tell I don’t read posts thoroughly.

If you got that to work brill.

An alternative, as well is (time < (inPoint + outPoint)/2) which simply means, if I’m before the middle of the layer. I use this a lot, for scaling and position, but I’ve never had to go to a third point.

t =.25;

posa = [0,0];
posb = [100,100];
posc = [100,200];

if(time < (inPoint + outPoint)/2) {
ease(time,inPoint,inPoint + t,posa,posb)
}else{
ease(time,outPoint – t,outPoint,posb,posc)
}

it makes no difference really i think… With me still getting used to expressions 2 years later < or >…they break my brain haha, as I don’t know if they have a significant difference to writing it < or >.

Anyways…Glad it’s working.

[Scott Mcgee]

There is probably better ways to do this.

a is when you want the animation to happen, I’ve included inPoint of the layer, so that if you move the layer, it’ll re adjust itself.
t is the time the animation will last.
posa is the first position
posb is the second position it will hold on
posc is the final position

a = 4;
t =.5;

posa = [0,0];
posb = [100,100];
posc = [100,1000];

if((time > inPoint) && (time < inPoint + a)){
ease(time,inPoint,inPoint+t,posa,posb)
}else{
ease(time,inPoint + a,inPoint + a + t,posb,posc)
}

Like I said, there is probably an easier method, but this is how I would do it currently at my level of expertise.

Hope this is of use

[Scott Mcgee]

Main one I’d use is a “if” expression tied in with either a checkbox or text layer. If you select top, middle or bottom it uses the relevant expression instead based on that.

Might not be the best way of doing it possibly, but that’s the way I would do off the top of my head.

This is how I would write it for text reference.

if (thisComp.layer(“TMB”).toLowerCase == “top”){
use top expression
}
else if (thisComp.layer(“TMB”).toLowerCase == “middle”){
use middle expression
}
else if (thisComp.layer(“TMB”).toLowerCase == “bottom”){
use bottom expression
}

obviously if you want to use checkboxes, just rewrite for that.

[Scott Mcgee]

Haha,

No i did not spot that.

[Scott Mcgee]

Not too sure what’s wrong with yours.

But I’ve re written it to work for me.

txt = comp(“master”).layer(8).text.sourceText;
if(txt == “”){
effect(“Fill”)(“Color”)
} else {
txt = “0x” + thisComp.layer(“Colour”).text.sourceText;
r = txt >> 16;
g = (txt & 0x00ff00) >> 8;
b = txt & 0xff;
[r,g,b,255]/255
}

Altered for you

txt = thisComp.layer(“Colour”).text.sourceText;
if(txt == “background color”){
effect(“background color”)(“Color”)
} else {
txt = “0x” + thisComp.layer(“Colour”).text.sourceText;
r = txt >> 16;
g = (txt & 0x00ff00) >> 8;
b = txt & 0xff;
[r,g,b,255]/255
}

[Scott Mcgee]

Hey

A few things are wrong with this

a few notes

1: capital I in if, won’t work.
2: it should be thisLayer.parent, rather than the other way round.
3: if the parent exists .hasParent is the way to write this rather than “= 1”
4: because x and y exists at the bottom rather than in the top part of if, wiggle needs to have x and y values, which is doesn’t

l=thisLayer;
if (l.hasParent){
x = l.parent.position[0];
y = value[1];
[x,y];
} else {
wiggle(1,10);
}

This should work

[Scott Mcgee]

I am a moron….

I even tried a try/catch, but did it every wrong way possible, even when you posted that I did it wrong initially again and realised I have to put it in the loop for it too work, because I want to reference 4 categories I’ve been trying to put the try outside of it.

That is working sport on now.

Thank you for putting that, I would have gone around in circles otherwise.

for (var i = 1; i <= myComp.numLayers; i++){

try{
var nNum = myComp.layer(i).effect(“Name”)(“Slider”).value;
var name = myObject[nNum].name;
myComp.layer(i).name = name;
}catch(err){
continue;
}
};

for (var i = 1; i <= myComp.numLayers; i++){

try{
var lNum = myComp.layer(i).effect(“Location”)(“Slider”).value;
var location = myObject[lNum].location;
myComp.layer(i).name = location;
}catch(err){
continue;
}
};

Unless you can think of a tidier way for this…I only have to do it 4 times and it’s only a find and replace. Last year I typed 480 text layers out, I’m doing it again this year and giving myself RSI hahahaha.

Appreciate that.

[Scott Mcgee]

Cheers Liam for asking and Dan for answering.

This is exactly what I wanted and it works. With a few alterations. Honestly didn’t think that putting .indexOf at the end of the open square brackets would work…But I gave it a try and it did.

words = text.sourceText.replace(/^\s+/, “”).split(/\s+/);
if (words[textIndex-1].indexOf (“@”) >-1) 100 else 0

[Scott Mcgee]

This works, but if you hit return on the very first character, or if you delete the space that at the end of the line, it shifts the colour forward one otherwise it works…Yay

try{
myChar = “”;
for (i = textIndex; i > 0; i–){
thisText = text.sourceText.replace(/\r?\n|\r/g, ‘ ‘).replace(/\s{2,}/g, ‘ ‘);
c = thisText[i-1];
if (c == ” “) break;
myChar = c;
}
if (myChar == “@” || myChar == “#”) 100 else 0
}catch(e){
value
}

[Scott Mcgee]

Funnily enough though, if I treat is as a textbox, when it wraps the text…It’s not affected that way.