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    This document provides 10 useful After Effects expressions: 1) Maintain stroke width when scaling a shape layer, 2) Maintain scale when parenting layers, 3) Use Time or Time*50 to drive animation, 4) Add to existing value with +value, 5) Multiply by -1 with *-1, 6) Posterize time with posterizeTime(1), 7) Loop layers with loopOut(), 8) Reference layers in other comps with comp("COMP").layer("LAYER"), 9) Animate with wiggle(), and 10) Round numbers down with math.floor().

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    This document provides 10 useful After Effects expressions: 1) Maintain stroke width when scaling a shape layer, 2) Maintain scale when parenting layers, 3) Use Time or Time*50 to drive animation, 4) Add to existing value with +value, 5) Multiply by -1 with *-1, 6) Posterize time with posterizeTime(1), 7) Loop layers with loopOut(), 8) Reference layers in other comps with comp("COMP").layer("LAYER"), 9) Animate with wiggle(), and 10) Round numbers down with math.floor().

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    AE Expressions - Ben Marriott

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    Paulo Alberto Silva
    This document provides 10 useful After Effects expressions: 1) Maintain stroke width when scaling a shape layer, 2) Maintain scale when parenting layers, 3) Use Time or Time*50 to drive animation, 4) Add to existing value with +value, 5) Multiply by -1 with *-1, 6) Posterize time with posterizeTime(1), 7) Loop layers with loopOut(), 8) Reference layers in other comps with comp("COMP").layer("LAYER"), 9) Animate with wiggle(), and 10) Round numbers down with math.floor().

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    Useful After Effects Expressions

    From this tutorial:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsW4fwscwKI&feature=youtu.be

    1. Maintain stroke width


    value / length(toComp([0,0]), toComp([0.7071,0.7071])) || 0.001;

    Via Adam Plouff


    https://battleaxe.tumblr.com/post/101945073972/maintain-stroke-weight-expression

    2. Maintain scale when parented


    s = [];
    ps = parent.transform.scale.value;
    for (i = 0; i < ps.length; i++){
    s[i] = value[i]*100/ps[i];
    }
    s

    Via JR Canest’s handy spreadsheet


    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a3ArTUHAJwVi-ObZofvz6IfrKbSGSENlaTIRTs8pAJU/edit?pag
    eId=116871612094468624414#gid=0

    3.Time
    Time

    Or maybe
    Time*50

    Just time, nothing ticky

    4.
    +value

    5​.
    *-1

    6. Posterize Time

    posterizeTime(1);
    7. LoopOut

    loopOut(type = "cycle", numKeyframes = 0)


    loopOut(type = "pingpong", numKeyframes = 0)
    loopOut(type = "offset", numKeyframes = 0)

    You don’t need to include “numKeyframes = 0”


    loopOut(type = "cycle) will work too :)

    8. Reference Another Comp

    comp("COMP_NAME").layer("LAYER_NAME").

    To reference the source test from the example in the video


    comp("COMP_NAME").layer("LAYER_NAME").text.sourceText

    9. Wiggle

    wiggle(freq,amp);

    E.g.
    wiggle(1,50);

    10.

    math.floor()

    Thank you. :)

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