[Vojtěch Palme]

Ok but what if I actually wanted to do it the way Andy asked about in first place?
Im trying to make a growing vein kind of animation and by combining theese two effects I can make the vein thick at the base and thin at the end (write-on) but get thicker over time by revealing it with stroke effect to add realism (otherwise it just starts thick right away).
Being able to animate the path and having it updated live in both effects would be even better.

[Vojtěch Palme]

Thank you Michael. Interesting technique, but I don’t think it’s gonna help in this case. I realy need to get that Y axis rotation in there somehow. Because I want the wings to be bended in 3D (using raytraced renderer) and that corned pin only fakes the 3dimensional look.
I kinda managed to workaround it using corner pin on grid layer, soloing it and tracking with 3d camera tracker. Its not perfect yet but it’s getting there..

[Vojtěch Palme]

That depends on what you aplyed the wiggle to. If you’ve aplyed to position, that has 2 values, you cannot just pick whip brightness to entire position, but only to one of its values.
If you want both X and Y pos. to affect the brightness you can do something like this:

val = thisComp.layer("wiggling layer").transform.position[0]+thisComp.layer("wiggling layer").transform.position[1]/2; //evridge of the position x,y values
linear(val,1100,1300,-30,100) //this changes the resoult values (1100 and 1300 were my resoult values) to range between -30 and 100 (bright enaugh)

[Vojtěch Palme]

pitty.. the project file would be whole less messy and friendlier to my kollegues. Anyways. Thanks 😉

[Vojtěch Palme]

Yep. That was the idea.
SO how would you do it?
There is a text field. Only 7 lines of text fit in it, so if variable “lines” is bigger than 7, I want the field to start moving at certain time. And stop when the last line is visible (maxPos variable). And it would be welcomed if the animation could easeOut. I know there is souch statemant easeOut(,,) but dunno, how to use it.

[Vojtěch Palme]

Alright I got an answer on different forum. It’s:

for(var i = 0; i < fullM.length; i++) {
if(today == fullMoon[i]) {
100;
break;
} else {
0;
break;
}
}

[Vojtěch Palme]

Dan. You’ve been tremendous help. I used the script for left adjusted text

L = thisComp.layer("TITLE");
for (i = thisComp.width; i >= 0; i--){
temp = L.sampleImage([i,thisComp.height/2],[0.5,thisComp.height/2],true,time);
if (temp[3] > 0) break;
}
[i,value[1]]

and aplyed it to scale of layer on background of that text. It works. But when I load the “TITLE” content from external .txt

$.evalFile("C:/.../TITLE.txt");
try {
eval(title1)[0]
} catch (err) {
"not found"
}

and change the text within, I get this error

After Effects warning: Timeout while waiting for the engine
Expression disabled.
Error occurred at line 4.
Comp: ‘TABULKA1’
Layer: 16 (‘Title bg’)
Property: ‘Scale’

is there some way to maybe let the scale expression wait until the text is loaded? Seems to me that is looping it self or something..

And one more question, Is there a way to get number of lines of text? Or at least heigh of the text field? So when I paste text into some layer, the animator would readjust itself acordingly to display one row per second.
Thank you

[Vojtěch Palme]

Hi
Im having this rather annoying issue. Whenever I try to save as.. Or choose export destination, my AE crashes. There is no error message nothing. It just disappears in an instant.
Im running ae cs5.5 on 64 win7 (8gb ram, 1gb graphic card, processor i7)
Ill fail to finish my work on time because of this.. So Im rather upset. Any sugestions?