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Dan Ebberts
COW member since May 22nd 2001

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Re: Uniform Scale Wiggle by Dan Ebberts on Jul 1, 2008 at 4:39:00 pm
Re: Finding a loop point in an Expression by Dan Ebberts on Jun 29, 2008 at 6:43:54 pm
Re: Finding a loop point in an Expression by Dan Ebberts on Jun 28, 2008 at 9:33:36 pm
Re: Get original value of a property 'before' the expression is executed! by Dan Ebberts on Jun 27, 2008 at 4:59:36 pm
Re: Get original value of a property 'before' the expression is executed! by Dan Ebberts on Jun 27, 2008 at 3:28:28 pm
Re: alter or setting keyframes by Dan Ebberts on Jun 23, 2008 at 3:11:39 pm
Re: reading expression text from a text layer by Dan Ebberts on Jun 20, 2008 at 8:24:00 pm
Re: reading expression text from a text layer by Dan Ebberts on Jun 20, 2008 at 7:54:50 pm
Re: D. Ebberts Inverse Kinematics Redux Question by Dan Ebberts on Jun 17, 2008 at 5:42:14 pm
Re: Linking Opacity to Audio On/Off by Dan Ebberts on Jun 16, 2008 at 5:49:20 pm
Re: Randomizing a series of shots? by Dan Ebberts on Jun 14, 2008 at 4:32:40 am
Re: the spring bounce back movement, with only 1 kf and an expression? by Dan Ebberts on Jun 13, 2008 at 5:00:52 pm
Re: object on a string damping by Dan Ebberts on Jun 13, 2008 at 4:59:23 pm
Re: Linking audio amplitude to PNG sequence? by Dan Ebberts on Jun 13, 2008 at 4:50:11 pm
Re: Couldn't find layer...that is there by Dan Ebberts on Jun 12, 2008 at 7:44:20 pm
Re: Mask points by Dan Ebberts on Jun 12, 2008 at 6:15:46 pm
Re: Couldn't find layer...that is there by Dan Ebberts on Jun 12, 2008 at 6:01:01 pm
Re: Couldn't find layer...that is there by Dan Ebberts on Jun 12, 2008 at 5:59:56 pm
Re: the spring bounce back movement, with only 1 kf and an expression? by Dan Ebberts on Jun 12, 2008 at 3:16:32 pm
Re: the spring bounce back movement, with only 1 kf and an expression? by Dan Ebberts on Jun 12, 2008 at 3:16:47 am

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Re: Get time from keyframe-position
by Dan Ebberts on May 30, 2008 at 10:24:37 am
in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum
Like this: prop = thisComp.layer("Null 1").effect("Angle Control")("Angle"); n = prop.numKeys; prop.valueAtTime(time - prop.key(n).time) Dan...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Mats Jacobsson

Re: Random layer position constrained by another layer's alpha
by Dan Ebberts on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum
This seems to work for 2D. I'm not sure how you have your 2.5 D set up, but you should be able to do something similar. L = thisComp.layer("island"); seedRandom(index,true); P = L.transform.position; offset = [L.width,L.height]/2; minPos = P - offset; maxPos = P + offset; while(true){...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Chris Coleman

Re: Accessing textIndex from the Position property
by Dan Ebberts on Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:24 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Expressions Forum
Lloyd, It looks like you understand the limitations. My example wasn't the best though. If you change it to this: seedRandom(textIndex,true); random([-100,-100],[100,100]); you'll see that you have access to a rectangle with the character's original position in the center. I've actually constructed...

first tagged as a 5 COW post by Lloyd Alvarez

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