Tutorial 51: Flavor Text
Added 2016-12-30 16:34:03 +0000 UTCI'm on point this week with my post, haha. We're coming up on a full year of tutorials. Severo did 2 so far, so when I hit 54 we'll be at a full year. Though I recorded some things earlier, the first tutorial's date was officially 1/13/16.
In this week's tutorial, we look at a cool way to use an expression to make "flavor text" or loading text, like when your computer is searching or installing something.
//Apply to position
t = time-inPoint;
offset = Math.floor((t/thisComp.frameDuration)/7)*37;
[value[0],value[1]-offset];
But this technique is foundational for a couple of ideas regarding expressions—it shows you how to make things happen every few frames, rather than every frame, and it shows you how to use an offset to move things depending upon which block of time you're in. So this technique can be applied to many other things if you're willing to experiment!
