[Stephen Roberts]

Thanks Kevin!

This close, I suppose.

When the particles are rotating, they are not one solid color (picking up shadows and highlights I guess). I’d like them to be one solid color AND have the variety of shapes.

Is there a way to “turn off” the reflective properties of the particles?

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/particles

[Stephen Roberts]

Thanks! very cool

[Stephen Roberts]

Oh.. also. this is not a font! See the cut out letters? These are layers from Illustrator. So now Im trying to use the Slider controls to move the layers individually. I can do the scale … but not the position.

Here’s the expression I m using for the scale:

delay = thisComp.layer(“Sliders”).effect(“Delay Amount”)(“Slider”);
d = delay*index;
t = time-d;
exp = thisComp.layer(“Sliders”).effect(“Scale”)(“Slider”).valueAtTime(t);
[exp, exp];

But I don’t understand how to make the little bounce movement.

[Stephen Roberts]

Thanks Michael. I’ve been trying all morning. I guess Id be using scale, but then not sure how to get it to start in the middle, and then that little bounce …?

I’ve been hired to update a video someone else has created. Source files are gone. Not sure I’d animated it this way if it was up to me, but the client likes this text motion.

Any thoughts?

[Stephen Roberts]

Thanks everyone! … I’ll use the Illustrator files, and, if I’m understanding correctly, turn on “Continuously Rasterize” for wherever the actual Illustrator file layers reside.

For instance, if I have a character walking in a scene. The scene is a comp, the character is a comp, and his blinking eyes are a separate comp. So for his blinking eyes, I would turn on “Continuously Rasterize” on the “eyes” layers within the “blinking eyes” comp.

[Stephen Roberts]

no problem ! i’m just too inexperienced to try your method. thanks for the reply

[Stephen Roberts]

Nice one Dan! … that did the trick. Thanks much.

[Stephen Roberts]

It works… but not the way I need it to.

I have a mass of triangles scattered throughout the screen (see attached). I want them all to fly up out off the screen.

But when I use this expression, they all drop to the bottom of the screen (they all start at the same y value). I need them to start at their current y position.

any thoughts?

screenshot2015-05-30at5.07.41pm.png

delay = thisComp.layer("Sliders").effect("Delay amount")("Slider");

d = delay*index;
t = time-d;
exp = thisComp.layer("Sliders").effect("Position")("Slider").valueAtTime(t);

[Stephen Roberts]

Thanks Mark and Dan!

Dan, you were right… i just needed to rename that first slider to “Delay amount”

[Stephen Roberts]

Thanks Spencer! I had another issue of layers showing through with motion blur and 3d Layers and your adjustment layer trick worked! .. Thanks again.