Animate Object script
Use Animate Object script to create movies with an object changing its position and/or appearance from frame to frame. The object can be repositioned, stretched and rotated when moving from one movie frame to another.
To specify the variation of distortion parameters you can use arithmetic expressions using the following components:
- Numeric constants
- Any number like 2, 6.9, -76.67. You can also use PI for 3.1415926..., E for 2.7182818..., W for the width of the current frame, and H for the height of the current frame
- One of the following operators:
- + (addition), - (subtraction), * (multiplication), / (division), ^ (power)
- Parameter
- Use N keyword to represent the current movie frame being processed (relatively to the first frame selected, starting from 0. So if you selected the 3rd frame of the movie and started the script, N will be 0 for 3rd frame, 1 for 4th, 2 for 5th, and so on).
- Functions
- One of the following functions:
SIN - Sine
COS - Cosine
TAN - Tangent
SQR - Square root
LOG - base-10 logarithm
LN - natural logarithm
EXP - exponent (e raised to the given power) - Parentheses
- Use parentheses to control function evaluation order
For example, 5*N will evaluate to 0 for the first frame, 5 for the second, 10 for the third and so on.
Screenshot of the Animate Object script main dialog:
Below there are some of examples:
| Transformation | Resulting movie |
|---|---|
| X: 0 Y: 0 H Scale: 75+25*SIN(PI*N/5) V Scale: 75-25*SIN(PI*N/5) Angle: 0 Opacity: 100 Frames: 10 |
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| X: (W/2-50)*SIN(PI*N/5) Y: (H/2-50)*COS(PI*N/5) H Scale: 100-35*(1-COS(PI*N/5)) V Scale: 100-35*(1-COS(PI*N/5)) Angle: 0 Opacity: 100 Frames: 10 |
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| X: W*N/10-W/2 Y: 0 H Scale: 100 V Scale: 100 Angle: -W*N*360/PI/1000 Opacity: 100 Frames: 10 |
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Download Animate Object script for CorelPHOTO-PAINT 8:
- AnimateObject.zip (7K)