5 expressions that will change your life

[Jorge Lega 0]

These expressions save so much time, you might get home earlier tonight just by reading this post. If you've ever animated these sorts of things manually, you'll know what I mean. Most will need to be tweaked to your specific needs, but it's just a matter of playing with the numbers a little, and understanding how they'll change your animation. Here's the goods:

 

Jumpy Wiggle 1 makes wiggle skip and hold rather than move fluidly.

// Jumpy Wiggle 1 (moves at a random FPS)
v=wiggle(5,50);
if(v < 50)v=0;
if(v > 50)v=100;
v

 

Jumpy Wiggle 2 is similar to 1, but works at a defined FPS so your "jump" will happen at a regular pace.

// Jumpy Wiggle 2 (moves at a defined FPS)
fps=5; //frequency
amount=50;  //amplitude
wiggle(fps,amount,octaves = 1, amp_mult = 0.5,(Math.round(time*fps))/fps);

 

Inertial Bounce is like making your moves "rubbery." Layers will overextend, then settle into place on position and rotation keyframes.

// Inertial Bounce (moves settle into place after bouncing around a little)
n = 0;
if (numKeys > 0){
n = nearestKey(time).index;
if (key(n).time > time){
n--;
}
}
if (n == 0){
t = 0;
}else{
t = time - key(n).time;
}

if (n > 0){
v = velocityAtTime(key(n).time - thisComp.frameDuration/10);
amp = .05;
freq = 4.0;
decay = 2.0;
value + v*amp*Math.sin(freq*t*2*Math.PI)/Math.exp(decay*t);
}else{
value;
}

 

Sometimes you just want something to move constantly without keyframing it. Use throw.

// Throw (move at a constant speed without keyframes)
veloc = -10; //horizontal velocity (pixels per second)
x = position[0] + (time - inPoint) *veloc;
y = position[1];
[x,y]

 

Same as throw, but for rotation.

// Spin (rotate at a constant speed without keyframes)
veloc = 360; //rotational velocity (degrees per second)
r = rotation + (time - inPoint) *veloc;
[r]

 

This is an awesome script works like a charm in AE. I was just wondering how do I get it to work on C4D? I tried using the COFFEE tag but hasn't worked yet for me. Thanks again for these scripts (awesome timesavers)

[AAAron 0]

I just joined the forums just to thank you for this stuff Especially Inertial Bounce!

[drnz 0]

Thanks Beav--that Inertial Bounce will defs come in handy.

[sjlloyd 0]

could hug you lot right now, thank gawd for expressions

[imcalledandy 0]

great stuff - I like spin and throw

 

cheers!

[knettwerk 0]

Thank you for this.

[holdengraphics 0]

Great stuff.

 

Does anyone know of an equivalent to Inertia Bounce in Cinema 4D?

 

Would be really useful ...

 

Thanks

[basilisk 0]

Does anyone know of an equivalent to Inertia Bounce in Cinema 4D?

The Jiggle deformer (Mocca module) does this. It has the added advantage of deforming the object as well - try spinning an object to see instant jelly/jello.

[stoiqa 0]

thanks....works great )

Edited July 20, 2009 by stoiqa

[RustyAce 0]

Bump, thanks again Beaver

[tomcat 0]

It is so easy to do this with keyframes.

Why not just learn the program?

[RustyAce 0]

not key framing is learning the program. There is a reason they built in the ability to scrip motion, plus you can achieve a smoother motion in half the time and be able to make adjustments faster then beating the curves to death.

[Audie12 0]

That's great to hear that..Thanks a lot for the information.Good job.

 

 

Regards

 

Albert

 

______

Pret immobilier

[mintyfresh 0]

is there something like intertial bounce that would work on the morphing between pasted spline path keyframes in a shape/mask object? i'd love to add some bouncyness like the inertial bounce delivers

[kitkats 0]

Just wondering if anyone knows the easiest way to replicate inertial bounce in C4D?

[C.Smith 0]

Just wondering if anyone knows the easiest way to replicate inertial bounce in C4D?

 

I tried with Xpresso and the closest I got was CS_Springnull. But you can use the delay effector in mograph or attach a spring constraint to a null you keyframe and attach your object to the spring constraint.

[mercintosh 0]

I tried with Xpresso and the closest I got was CS_Springnull. But you can use the delay effector in mograph or attach a spring constraint to a null you keyframe and attach your object to the spring constraint.

 

Yeah that CS_Springnull is awesome. Thanks for that.

[kitkats 0]

Here's some animation preset's I made for inertial bounce.

 

There's three of them - put them in After Effects CS4>Presets>User Defined to access them within the Effects & Presets menu.

 

The first, InertialBounce, simply adds Beaver's expression to the selected layer's Position value.

 

The second and third, InertialBounce_P_key and InertialBounce_S_key, add the expression to Position and Scale respectively, but also tie it to three effect sliders, so that you can keyframe the amount of bounciness. This is very useful if you are bouncing a camera's moves, yet have some layers a long way from the camera and others close up. Note that these preset's don't work directly on Cameras and Lights since those cannot have effects applied. In this case parent them to a 3D null and apply the preset to the null.

 

One small gotcha is that if you apply InertialBounce_P_key and then immediately apply InertialBounce_S_key (or vice versa), for some reason it erases the first set of effects. You need to deselect the Slider effects before applying the second preset.

[dan_hin 0]

will that work in CS3?

[monovich 0]

"this file was created in a newer version of after effects, time to upgrade your application."

[graymachine 0]

EDIT: WTF do I need to do to post a simple link without it getting all fucked up?

 

 

http://www.graymachine.com/2009/10/my-favorite-expressions 

[monovich 0]

hmm... that bottom link doesn't work for me. ?

[graymachine 0]

Something weird with the URL in Wordpress.. inserting extra characters. I changed the URL, it works fine.

 

http://bit.ly/2HpvkR

[dan_hin 0]

"this file was created in a newer version of after effects, time to upgrade your application."

 

dammit.

 

it's begging-bowl time again. Cheers for that!

[floating.point 0]

I did a quick mod of CS_VibrateNull with a stutter function to match the Jitter AE script above. (Stutter at zero equals stutter off).

 

Stutter

 

Hey Chris,

The link is broken-

Is this available still or has it been superseded by something else?

Thanks,

Nathan