[Skylar Moran]

Nice, Ranveer!

You could also achieve a looped wiggle by applying this expression to your camera’s position property.

freq = 1;
amp = 110;
loopTime = 3;
t = time % loopTime;
wiggle1 = wiggle(freq, amp, 1, 0.5, t);
wiggle2 = wiggle(freq, amp, 1, 0.5, t - loopTime);
linear(t, 0, loopTime, wiggle1, wiggle2)

It unfortunately doesn’t work on a shape layer’s path property, but for basically everything else it’s great.

[Skylar Moran]

Rectangular, but yes

[Skylar Moran]

Thank you!!

This is great! Except for one weird thing, The delay is working correctly, but when I parent the layer, and then again when I apply the delay expression, the layer shifts from the path I want it to follow. It ends up to the side and way ahead of the parent layer. I was able to fix it by just manually moving the layer into place, but I’m not sure why it’s doing this. Here’s the expression as I have it now.

slider = effect("position")("Slider")
t = slider * thisComp.frameDuration
Nullpos = thisComp.layer("Null 4").transform.position
Nullpos.valueAtTime(t)
delay = effect("delay")("Slider")
parent.fromWorld(toWorld(anchorPoint,time-delay));


Also, do you know how I could get the delay to work on a frame basis rather than seconds? Like, if I set the delay slider to 1, that delays it 1 frame rather than 1 second?

Thank you!

[Skylar Moran]

That fixed it! Thank you!

[Skylar Moran]

Oh… lol. Now it works!

Thank you for helping me with this so kindly. I really, really appreciate it. I will learn enough about expressions to not sound like a doofus one day! For now, you saved my evening. 🙂

[Skylar Moran]

“Error at line 11 in property ‘Opacity’ or layer 60
Expected: ).”

I tried adding . after the ) on what I think is considered line 11 but I’m still getting the error.

[Skylar Moran]

Ok wow great this sounds like exactly what I need. Will it still work even though the position of the actual text layer isn’t changing, just the position of the null it’s parented to is?

And also it’s giving me an error on the expression at line 11. Is there something I’m missing?

Thank you so much!