aescripts + aeplugins

Frank Lamont · December 2017

Can't wait! when do you think the release date will be?

Tomas Sinkunas · December 2017

Monday. Pinky swear.

Frank Lamont said:
Can't wait! when do you think the release date will be?

Kaleb Wyman · December 2017

Exciting!

Frank Lamont · December 2017

Ok, this is taking way too long now!

Tomas Sinkunas · December 2017

Trust me, I'm as much eager to launch it as you are you get it. But be patient, less then 48 hours left till we Roll it! out.

Frank Lamont said:

Ok, this is taking way too long now!

basem alideeb · December 2017

That's AMAZING ^__^

Ben Parker · December 2017

Very cool script boss. Although I would have bought it just to reward you for the epic Promo. Quick question how does Roll it work with parenting? I noted that in your example you have the tractor rig how was that put together?

Tomas Sinkunas · December 2017

Hey Ben. Thanks for kind reply.

Parenting? Hell yeah! Actually, I am working on a tutorial to show how to rig either a tractor or a pram, but it would take some time to finish it. Anyways, you can try parenting with trial mode to see what's up.

Ben Parker said:

Very cool script boss. Although I would have bought it just to reward you for the epic Promo. Quick question how does Roll it work with parenting? I noted that in your example you have the tractor rig how was that put together?

Mark Santella · December 2017

I must be slow. The instructions for how to use it seem vague to me. Please advise or provide a step by step tutorial please. Purchased it.

James Scott · December 2017

Looks great. And I would second Mark Santella's sentiments. I would love to see a tutorial on how you did the examples at the bottom of the descriptions page.

Tomas Sinkunas · December 2017

1. Select a shape layer.

2. Click Roll it!

3. Modify Rotation property.

That's it. It rolls.

Mark Santella said:

I must be slow. The instructions for how to use it seem vague to me. Please advise or provide a step by step tutorial please. Purchased it.

Tomas Sinkunas · December 2017

I am working on tutorial. This will take some time though. It will be posted online once it's done. Thank you.

James Scott said:

Looks great. And I would second Mark Santella's sentiments. I would love to see a tutorial on how you did the examples at the bottom of the descriptions page.

Sebastian Nevermann · December 2017

Hi!
I just bought your script, and it works like a charm in CC2017. Unfortunately I wanted to use this in a project that needs to be finished in CC2014. Trying the script there always leads to an "Out of Memory"-Error following AE crashing. I have >30 GB of RAM available for AE, Mutlicore-Rendering is disabled.
Any further ideas on how I could fix that issue?

For now I'll just "roll" the desired shape in CC17 and import it over to CC14. Would be nice though if I could use it directly.

Thank you so much for this awesome tool!
Regards

Sebastian Nevermann · December 2017

Darn. So much for "rolling" it in CC17 and importing it to CC14.
It seems to be the expression itself that (in my case) crashes CC14.

My workaround for now: Convert the expression to keyframes and thus get the desired result in CC14.

David Crowther · December 2017

Clever little script, thanks for making it!

Mike Mirandi · December 2017

Great tool, man. Love it so far.

A great feature would be to allow the reverse of its functionality: moving the object's position dictates the roll. This would allow for vehicles that have two different sized wheels to roll at different rates, or to roll objects to up and down a wavy hill, or around a path.

It's probably already possible to figure out with math, but my math.....she's not so good.

Tomas Sinkunas · December 2017

Thanks Mike.

I am working on this feature. I was working on such task before, but didnt finish it because of too complex calculations, therefore went with Rotation drives Position approach. I might give first option a try again after holidays, but cannot give you any promises. It really isn't a simple trigonometry there, unfortunately.

Mike Mirandi said:

Great tool, man. Love it so far.

A great feature would be to allow the reverse of its functionality: moving the object's position dictates the roll. This would allow for vehicles that have two different sized wheels to roll at different rates, or to roll objects to up and down a wavy hill, or around a path.

It's probably already possible to figure out with math, but my math.....she's not so good.

philippe mouret · May 2018

Hi Tomas,

As James Scott asked in december, a real tutorial would be useful. We are in May now and no tutorial has come. When can we hope to see one? I've purchased this script and need real help to use it now. Thanks

aa bb · June 2018

Hi Tomas.

What about real tutorial for using this script?

aa bb · June 2018

How can I get back my money?

carlos juliao · June 2018

Hi there,

pretty good script for rolling just a simple layer with an odd shape

but

how do we go about getting the actions shown in the promo video

which is what sold me on buying it in the first place

just a simple tutorial to understand how to put together a parented group and have only a few rotate

like the tractor displayed

thanks in advance

Tomas Sinkunas · June 2018

Sorry for a long wait, but tutorial just went online, along with project files. Hope you find it usefull https://aescripts.com/learn/roll-it--tractor-tutorial/

carlos juliao said:

Hi there,
pretty good script for rolling just a simple layer with an odd shape
but
how do we go about getting the actions shown in the promo video
which is what sold me on buying it in the first place

just a simple tutorial to understand how to put together a parented group and have only a few rotate
like the tractor displayed

thanks in advance

aa bb said:

Hi Tomas.
What about real tutorial for using this script?

philippe mouret said:

Hi Tomas,

As James Scott asked in december, a real tutorial would be useful. We are in May now and no tutorial has come. When can we hope to see one? I've purchased this script and need real help to use it now. Thanks

Jaime Martinez · October 2018

I'm considering on buying it. But when is it going to be compatible with CC 2019?

Pipedrive OÜ · March 2019

How can I make the two abstract and odd sized shapes still react like car wheels?

Currently they don't stick to the car, but start to slide from the wheelarches?

Tomas Sinkunas · March 2019

Hey. have you seen Tractor tutorial?

It covers basic steps on how to rig wheels.

Pipedrive OÜ said:

How can I make the two abstract and odd sized shapes still react like car wheels?
Currently they don't stick to the car, but start to slide from the wheelarches?

Pipedrive OÜ · March 2019

Tomas Sinkunas said:

Hey. have you seen Tractor tutorial?

It covers basic steps on how to rig wheels.

Pipedrive OÜ said:

How can I make the two abstract and odd sized shapes still react like car wheels?
Currently they don't stick to the car, but start to slide from the wheelarches?

Yes, but unfortunately it doesn't work when the wheels are random shapes / different sizes. They travel different distances

Toby Meadows · March 2019

Hi there! Love this script! I'm having an issue however when using it with motion 2 excite on the rotation. It works as expected but after the animation is complete the position occasionally flashes it off to the side intermittently for the duration of the comp. Thanks for any help you can provide! https://gph.is/g/4zoMrLE <- Gif of example here

Robert Penczak · July 2019

Hi - I've read the pdf but I'm either doing something wrong or there's an incompatibility with CC 2019. I have two basic questions:

1) How do you make a shape (bezier) roll along a path? (I've tried clicking with the various modifier keys and have tried a mask on the shape layer as well as on an independent layer)

2) In the documentation, it notes this can't be used on animated shapes. But in the sample shots, it shows an chicken with leg swinging back and forth tumbling on conveyor belt and looks like Roll It is registering the proper contact points. Can you explain how that's done?

Thanks

Tomas Sinkunas · July 2019

Hey Toby. That flashing looks weird. Any chance you could share a AEP so I could take a look? I've never seen this before in my tests. Cheers.

Toby Meadows said:

Hi there! Love this script! I'm having an issue however when using it with motion 2 excite on the rotation. It works as expected but after the animation is complete the position occasionally flashes it off to the side intermittently for the duration of the comp. Thanks for any help you can provide! https://gph.is/g/4zoMrLE <- Gif of example here

Tomas Sinkunas · July 2019

Hey Robert Thanks for your inquiry.

Regarding #1 - no, you cannot roll along the path, unfortunately. This is something I left uncovered due to too complex mathematical calculations.

As for the #2, well, what I meant to say in the docs was that once you click Roll it!, scripts reads the shape data at current position, no matter if your shape is animated or not. So, once Roll it! makes a snapshot of your shape at this time, it will roll on this data. Therefore, if your shape animates while rolling, it's contact with the ground will not be precise. In my chicken sample shot I did a trick - I read data once chicken was flat on the surface with it's legs pointing upwards. So in this case, when it rolls, I can somewhat move/rotate the legs while the chicken is flat on the ground and legs aren't touching the surface.However, I have to return legs position/rotation to it's original position once they make a contact with the ground, otherwise legs would go underneath the surface. Sorry, this is something too difficult for me to explain. But I hope this clears at least something. Cheers.

Robert Penczak said:

Hi - I've read the pdf but I'm either doing something wrong or there's an incompatibility with CC 2019. I have two basic questions:

1) How do you make a shape (bezier) roll along a path? (I've tried clicking with the various modifier keys and have tried a mask on the shape layer as well as on an independent layer)

2) In the documentation, it notes this can't be used on animated shapes. But in the sample shots, it shows an chicken with leg swinging back and forth tumbling on conveyor belt and looks like Roll It is registering the proper contact points. Can you explain how that's done?

Thanks

Tomas Sinkunas · July 2019

It is compatible with CC2019 and probably with the newer AE versions once they come out.

Jaime Martinez said:

I'm considering on buying it. But when is it going to be compatible with CC 2019?

Tomas Sinkunas · July 2019

Yeah, this is a known issue/scenario with odd shapes. However, the only way around this is to use Rotation on the one wheel, but animate the second wheel frame by frame, so it doesn't slide from the wheelarches.

I wish I could provide a better solution for this, but I don't have anything better for this moment, sorry.

Pipedrive OÜ said:

How can I make the two abstract and odd sized shapes still react like car wheels?
Currently they don't stick to the car, but start to slide from the wheelarches?

Robert Penczak · July 2019

Hey Tomas -

Thanks for the explanations. I'll do some further testing with those techniques and manual adjustments in mind.

Tomas Sinkunas said:

Hey Robert Thanks for your inquiry.
Regarding #1 - no, you cannot roll along the path, unfortunately. This is something I left uncovered due to too complex mathematical calculations.
As for the #2, well, what I meant to say in the docs was that once you click Roll it!, scripts reads the shape data at current position, no matter if your shape is animated or not. So, once Roll it! makes a snapshot of your shape at this time, it will roll on this data. Therefore, if your shape animates while rolling, it's contact with the ground will not be precise. In my chicken sample shot I did a trick - I read data once chicken was flat on the surface with it's legs pointing upwards. So in this case, when it rolls, I can somewhat move/rotate the legs while the chicken is flat on the ground and legs aren't touching the surface.However, I have to return legs position/rotation to it's original position once they make a contact with the ground, otherwise legs would go underneath the surface. Sorry, this is something too difficult for me to explain. But I hope this clears at least something. Cheers.

Robert Penczak said:

Hi - I've read the pdf but I'm either doing something wrong or there's an incompatibility with CC 2019. I have two basic questions:

1) How do you make a shape (bezier) roll along a path? (I've tried clicking with the various modifier keys and have tried a mask on the shape layer as well as on an independent layer)

2) In the documentation, it notes this can't be used on animated shapes. But in the sample shots, it shows an chicken with leg swinging back and forth tumbling on conveyor belt and looks like Roll It is registering the proper contact points. Can you explain how that's done?

Thanks

Tomas Sinkunas · July 2019

Robert, you can grab Chicken AEP project file from here and see how I did it. Cheers.

https://lottiefiles.com/7093-roll-it-chicken-roll

Robert Penczak said:

Hey Tomas -

Thanks for the explanations. I'll do some further testing with those techniques and manual adjustments in mind.

Tomas Sinkunas said:

Hey Robert Thanks for your inquiry.
Regarding #1 - no, you cannot roll along the path, unfortunately. This is something I left uncovered due to too complex mathematical calculations.
As for the #2, well, what I meant to say in the docs was that once you click Roll it!, scripts reads the shape data at current position, no matter if your shape is animated or not. So, once Roll it! makes a snapshot of your shape at this time, it will roll on this data. Therefore, if your shape animates while rolling, it's contact with the ground will not be precise. In my chicken sample shot I did a trick - I read data once chicken was flat on the surface with it's legs pointing upwards. So in this case, when it rolls, I can somewhat move/rotate the legs while the chicken is flat on the ground and legs aren't touching the surface.However, I have to return legs position/rotation to it's original position once they make a contact with the ground, otherwise legs would go underneath the surface. Sorry, this is something too difficult for me to explain. But I hope this clears at least something. Cheers.

Robert Penczak said:

Hi - I've read the pdf but I'm either doing something wrong or there's an incompatibility with CC 2019. I have two basic questions:

1) How do you make a shape (bezier) roll along a path? (I've tried clicking with the various modifier keys and have tried a mask on the shape layer as well as on an independent layer)

2) In the documentation, it notes this can't be used on animated shapes. But in the sample shots, it shows an chicken with leg swinging back and forth tumbling on conveyor belt and looks like Roll It is registering the proper contact points. Can you explain how that's done?

Thanks

Frank Lamont · November 2019

Hi I'm trying to use it AE 2019, however it just doesn't seem to apply the expression. Does it not work in 2019?

Here's what I'm doing:

1. Create a shape

2. Launch Roll it

3. Click on Roll it!,

4. Click on Got it Boss!

no expressing shows up on the position transform

Chris Marriott · November 2019

Frank Lamont said:

Hi I'm trying to use it AE 2019, however it just doesn't seem to apply the expression. Does it not work in 2019?
Here's what I'm doing:
1. Create a shape
2. Launch Roll it
3. Click on Roll it!,
4. Click on Got it Boss!

no expressing shows up on the position transform

This is probably the issue.
Roll it works with Bezier shapes, so all the parametric shapes such as rectangle, ellipse, and star, must be converted to a Bezier shape. To do so twirl open the shape layer and right-click the shape path for example, Rectangle 1, and select Convert To Bezier Path.

Michiel van Haren · February 2020

Can you roll a normal (raster) layer as well? Or like, build a shape in the same shape as the raster layer (say, an egg) and parent the layer to the rolling shape?

Tomas Sinkunas · February 2020

You cannot roll raster layer. However, what you can do, is draw a Mask on that raster layer, and set it's mode to None (so it does not mask the layer), and then use _that Mask_ as a shape for Roll it!.

Michiel van Haren said:

Can you roll a normal (raster) layer as well? Or like, build a shape in the same shape as the raster layer (say, an egg) and parent the layer to the rolling shape?

Ashley smith · June 2020

Can I use Roll it to follow a specific path. Say rolling an oval up and down hills?

Tomas Sinkunas · June 2020

Sorry, but no.

That would make AE to explode with complex calculation in expression on each frame.

Ashley smith said:

Can I use Roll it to follow a specific path. Say rolling an oval up and down hills?

Adam Tow · August 2020

Hi there, I love the product... happy customer. One question - does anything come to mind as a way to lock a texture that's linked to the object? Even if just the X. I've looked into / tried sourceRectAtTime but that's getting out of my realm. I would think I could use sourceRectAtTime to get the top left bounding box of the object (or center, in the case of my oblong shape)... and lock a layer to those coordinates. Thanks for your time!

Tomas Sinkunas · August 2020

One way would be to make texture follow the position of the rolling layer. Apply this expression on textture layers Position property:

var rollingLayer = thisComp.layer("ROLLING LAYER");

var x = rollingLayer.transform.position[0];

var y = value[1];

[x, y];

Cheers.

Adam Tow said:

Hi there, I love the product... happy customer. One question - does anything come to mind as a way to lock a texture that's linked to the object? Even if just the X. I've looked into / tried sourceRectAtTime but that's getting out of my realm. I would think I could use sourceRectAtTime to get the top left bounding box of the object (or center, in the case of my oblong shape)... and lock a layer to those coordinates. Thanks for your time!

ole sturm · December 2020

Is there a way to bake the resulting animation?

Chris Gannon · January 2021

Hi,

Roll It! is causing random position glitches. I see another user has seen this too. Did you find a solution?

art arnon · February 2021

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