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MonsieurWeile
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November 4, 2021
Question

Move a timeline, using expression in After Effects 2022

  • November 4, 2021
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I have a composition, containing a Particle World effect that spawns hundreds of coins.

Each coin is an composition itself, where it flips around 360 degrees, showing both sides.

 

My problem is that every coin spawns with the animation starting from start. This gives a somewhat "uniform" look, where the upper part of the waterfall shows head, the lower part tail.

 

I'm looking for a way to either jump to a random point in time for each coin at spawn time - or timeshift the composition so that each coin composition is moved a random number of frames to the left.

Any ideas?

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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November 5, 2021

Same answer as to your other question: What's not implemented in the effect itself cannot be hacked even with the most elaborate expressions or whatever you envision here. PW does have some random sampling, though, so maybe you jsut need to play more with the settings. If that doesn't do the trick, then again the answer would have to be to use commercial third-party plug-ins like Particular and Stardust.

 

Mylenium

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MonsieurWeileAuthor
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November 5, 2021

Yes, I realized, PW itself was not able to handle it and hoped, an expression might be a way out... but as mentioned in the other post, I'll check the suggested plug-ins out.

Thank you for your answer.

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