[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Joshua, you could do the following:

1. From Templater, apply color hex to text layer, just a a string.
2. Then link expression from that string to Fill’s effect.
3. Expression encode hex to color.

So this solution allows you to get rid of that ‘solids’ idea completely (which is limited, IMO, and not intuitive that much)

function hexToColor(theHex){

theHex = parseInt(theHex,16);

var r = theHex >> 16;
var g = (theHex & 0x00ff00) >> 8;
var b = theHex & 0xff;

return [r/255,g/255,b/255,1];

}

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Avinash – there is no direct access to this information as far as I know.

You need to convert audio levels to keyframes in order to access dBs of amplitude.

Here is some example from YT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37q5eXsr1VI

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Sorry, that was just a logical sequence, not an actual expression to be applied.

With that said:

rotationProp – expression to your ship’s rotation property
rotationMin – smallest rotation value it gets
rotationMax – highest rotation value
xOffset – number of pixels the ship shall move

Explore how linear() works, here

Hope that helps!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Thanks, seeing it helps.

Based on this, I assume wave should move back and forth in X axis, along rotation.

Maybe, in order to achieve this, you could add/subtract x shifting by interpolating rotation to to horizontal translation. Somewhat along those lines, applied to xPos.

xShift = linear(rotationProp, rotationMin, rotationMax, -xOffset, +xOffset);
transform.xPosition + xShift

Once this works as expected, in the same fashion you could introduce Y pos change.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Yes, that is true. Try changing ‘solving method’ and apply advanced method checkbox as well to look for improvement.

Choose the one, which has smallest pixel error rate. Below 1.5px usually turns OK.

Also, you can also break the clip into two parts, at the time where it fails the most.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Niall, there were few similar topics not long ago, but here is one I just found, which covers pretty close what you are looking for: Setting a min length while using sourceRectAtTime

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Got it, now it makes totally sense, thanks.

1. To make wave ‘to ignore’ rotation, link its rotation to the ship rotation, and add minus in front. It will re-translate it to 0. (Might need to adjust position of wave’s anchor point though)
2. I don’t 100% grasp the movement of Y axis. If you parent wave to ships X, what influence it can have from Y movement? I guess this is solely because of point nr 1 – which, once solved, should get rid of this issue.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Albert, while I am not familiar with Animate – could you specify whether after exporting, you still got those transform props values accessible in AE in the native to AE, manner? OR, you made these transformations in AE already?

On a different note, when ship rotates – where its anchor point is originally based, bottom center or anywhere else?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

With 3D camera track, it should contain its position.

Not sure whether you are related with the tracker itself, but once it does the analysing of the scene, you need to select points, to form perpendicular circular plane to your footage. Once they are selected, just right click and create camera with null.

Afterwards, copy null’s transformation props and paste to your stripped bg. Adjust its size and you should be good to go!

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Robert, turning the switch of FX by expression is not possible.

What you could do instead, is link all effect’s props to Checkbox control, and turn them on/off by checkbox status.

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