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| Bruce, Thanks!!! stephen van vuuren 336.202.4777 http://www.insaturnsrings.com/ http://www.sv2dcp.com/ http://www.sv2studios.com/ A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. –Stanley Kubrick -----Original Message----- From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Bruce Wainer Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 9:07 PM To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] Sat. Night Expression Question On a null layer, apply the "Slider Control" effect. In the camera or the text, (not both) change the position expression to be: (whatever is already there) + [0,0,---SLIDER---] For "---SLIDER---", use the pick-whip to select the number field of the slider effect. Then any changes to the slider will be added to the Z-parameter of your position. to change position over time, simply keyframe the slider values. So if you made the change to the text position, the expression might look like: thisComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.position + [0,0,250+thisComp.layer("Position Control").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")] or: thisComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.position + [0,0,250] + [0,0,thisComp.layer("Position Control").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")] Bruce On Saturday, August 17, 2013 8:56:28 PM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote: > I’ve got a comp with a camera flying forward while slowly rotating in > Z through a 3D scene (title sequence). I want text layers to be offset > from the camera in front. That’s easy: > > thisComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.position + [0,0,250] > > thisComp.layer("Camera 1").transform.zRotation – 90 > > But I want the text layers to be moving slightly off-speed with > respect to the camera, camera slowly catches up and passes them, so a > variable offset if you will. And nice if further offset could be tied > to opacity (far away would fade in). > > I could manually do this of course but wondered if there was some cool > way to do it with expressions. > > *stephen van vuuren* > > 336.202.4777 > > ** > > *http://www.insaturnsrings.com/* > > *http://www.sv2dcp.com/* > > *http://www.sv2studios.com/* > > ** > > /A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It > should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s > behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later./ > > –*Stanley Kubrick* > +---End of message---+ To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
