Return-Path: Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.161] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5184914 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:35:37 +0200 X-RZG-AUTH: :JWICemClevKDgu8HjcNJMjRl593UXLPRxATGwvl0czvlKPvWKaNvvwXwg2dSKz8= X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from [192.168.14.23] (p5DC65CDB.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.198.92.219]) by smtp.strato.de (RZmta 31.45 DYNA|AUTH) with (DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPA id m06a72p7MFi07M for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:47:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5216329F.9030907@mamoworld.com> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:47:43 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mathias_M=F6hl?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] animating a pulsing dot line References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------020603080509000606020907" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020603080509000606020907 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Dean, this sounds like a good job for iExpressions. To place a bunch of layers along a line, use one of these: Distribute 2D Line - http://bit.ly/12sHUsI Distribute 3D Line - http://bit.ly/12sHMcw If you want all of them to follow the opacity change of the first one, but with a time delay, you can link the opacity for each of them to the opacity of the first one using a Simple Link 1D - http://bit.ly/17620bQ After you linked, you can click on the triangle before the link to reveal the link options where you can set a time delay (The amount of time delay is the only thing you need to adjusted for each layer manually) Cheers, Mathias Am 22.08.2013 17:12, schrieb Dean Forss: > Aloha, > > I am looking for an expression that might help me animate a line of > dots. I have the dot going from zero transparency to 100% and back on > an expression that works fine. I'd like to create a left to right > series of these dots animating on and off left to right. Is there an > expression that would help here you are aware of? > > Gracias, > > -- > *Dean Forss > Technology Consultant, 3D Artist, Interactive Designer > Direct 904.557.4189* > * > * > Life is a wondrous adventure; embrace it, leave yesterday behind, take > risks - not to escape today's life, but to prevent it from escaping you! > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *mamoworld.com tools & tutorials for After Effects* dr. mathias möhl marlow 52, 18551 sagard, germany phone +49 (0)38302 - 887561 info@mamoworld.com --------------020603080509000606020907 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Hi Dean,

this sounds like a good job for iExpressions.

To place a bunch of layers along a line, use one of these:
Distribute 2D Line - http://bit.ly/12sHUsI
Distribute 3D Line - http://bit.ly/12sHMcw

If you want all of them to follow the opacity change of the first one, but with a time delay, you can link the opacity for each of them to the opacity of the first one using a
Simple Link 1D - http://bit.ly/17620bQ
After you linked, you can click on the triangle before the link to reveal the link options where you can set a time delay
(The amount of time delay is the only thing you need to adjusted for each layer manually)

Cheers,
Mathias

Am 22.08.2013 17:12, schrieb Dean Forss:

Aloha,

I am looking for an expression that might help me animate a line of dots. I have the dot going from zero transparency to 100% and back on an expression that works fine. I'd like to create a left to right series of these dots animating on and off left to right. Is there an expression that would help here you are aware of?

Gracias,

--

Dean Forss
Technology Consultant, 3D Artist, Interactive Designer
Direct 904.557.4189

Life is a wondrous adventure; embrace it, leave yesterday behind, take risks - not to escape today's life, but to prevent it from escaping you!

mamoworld.com
tools & tutorials for After Effects

dr. mathias möhl
marlow 52, 18551 sagard, germany
phone +49 (0)38302 - 887561
info@mamoworld.com

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