Is there a loop expression for "full cycles" only?

Question

Hey, I'm making an animation bank.As it is a bank and I will use it for various projects, I want the assets to be as editable as possible.Each assets consists three comps - start, body (loop), and ending, so I could alter the length of the asset as I please.the body comp is a single, cycle type, loop, which the loop expression is configured on its Time Remap value.I know that you can limit the cycles based on a timestamp, but is there an expression that makes the loop go only in full cycles depends on the layer length? for example: a layer is 5:00 sec in length, the looped keyframes are 2:00 sec in total.In that scenario the loop will have 2.5 cycles, but I want the expression to recgonize that after 2 loops it won't be able to complete a third cycle so it will freeze on the last framefor clarifications I use LoopOut exxpression on all of those said layers.Thank you!

Amit Zach · Accepted Answer

Thank you so much Dan!
I have changed (thisComp.duration - key(1).time) to (thisLayer.outPoint - thisLayer.inPoint) so the loop will end based on the layer duration and not the whole comp which is located in.
So the full expression is:

loopDur = key(numKeys).time - key(1).time;
numLoops = Math.floor((thisLayer.outPoint - thisLayer.inPoint)/loopDur);
if (time < key(1).time + numLoops*loopDur)
  loopOut()
else
  key(numKeys).value;

Thank you so much!

Dan Ebberts · Answer

Try this time remapping expression:loopDur = key(numKeys).time - key(1).time;numLoops = Math.floor((thisComp.duration - key(1).time)/loopDur);if (time < key(1).time + numLoops*loopDur)  loopOut()else  key(numKeys).value;

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