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74502fs
74502fs
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April 2, 2020
Question

Using Markers to trigger “blink” on time remapped Eyes layer

  • April 2, 2020
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I'm working on a character animation and have an eyes layer that opens and closes with time remapping. When the time remap is set to 0 the eyes are completely closed and when it's at 10 they are wide open. I would like to be able to use a Marker to trigger an occasional blink to 0 for about three frames and then ease in to return to whatever the original value was. I'm having trouble finding an expression that allows me to do this with Markers.

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Martin_Ritter
Martin_Ritter
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April 3, 2020

Maybe this is not the whole solution, but:

 

//get time of next marker - next marker always updates while time increases
nextMarkerTime = marker.nearestKey(time).time;

//map markertime against time, result will be negative, when marker is reached, it counts up from 0
time - nextMarkerTime;

 

This will close eyes whenever a marker is reached and will open them over 10 frames again.

 

Also check out Dan Ebberts Blink expressions. It works with random time spans, so no control, but great result.

 

*Martin

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