Spent the whole day trying to adjust a pie chart from some other tutorial on youtube. And then along comes the Mr Abrams and makes the whole thing dynamic. Old tutorial but still gold! Thanks!
Glad to hear it. :) An oven is just a box till the heat is on right? A fridge is actually more damaging to cameras because of moisture and condensation on the internal parts.
You are truly one of the best after effects tutor on web. The thing you keep so much work by doing tutorials, Q&A and posting cool stuff on FB and you doing it for free is really amazing. Thanks again for all this stuff, I really amazed by your going and works.
Thanks EC! I just followed your tutorial but with ellipse shapes and strokes, so it doesn't rely on an effect. And it works PERFECTLY! You are the best
As a novice in After Effects and kind of intimidated, I appreciate your easy-going and friednly style. Your making those very technical and intriguing steps comprehensible. I'll keep watching.
Is there a particular reason for wanting that to happen. this one was already uploaded at 1080p and cannot be changed. If you want to watch in 720 there is an option on the player.
Hi! I'm stuck at 4:20. For some reason I don't have a drop down for start angle and I can't put the angle expressions in. I'm working with AE CC. This is a great tuts btw, I've watched this like 10 times and I don't know what step I'm missing. :/
Great tutorial. But how would I then go about exploding the pie chart after this? Would it be better to create accurate pie chart in illustrator then reveal the segments in a slider/wipe control? Then animating each as a separate layer. Or is there a more elegant way inside after effects? thanks
This has to be the highest ratio of convoluted solution to simple task that I have ever seen. This is like if you asked someone how to tie your own shoes and they asked you to craft a da vinci-era mechanical padlock to wear on your feet.
I ended up doing this project over completely three times before I got it right...but it was so worth it for the final product! Thank you so much, awesome video : )
bro, congrats for your awesome job. I started studying cinema effects and now Im diving deep this new world and the last few weeks I could learn lot of new things, including this you teach in this video. Thanks, +1 follower. cheers!
Charts are rad, and people need to make them more often. I usually use the adobe help file expression reference tbh. It's very handy. But much like learning other languages I really only pick it up as I need it so I can order a beer and find the bathroom in After Effects expressions.
I loved the tutorial. You were prepared, took us on a step by step path, and were totally professional. I appreciate it when the presenter is totally on his game and knows exactly what he is doing. You do, sir. Great job!
Thanks, Evan. I find myself avoiding expressions, but the examples you give in this tutorial are too effective to ignore. More tuts with expressions would be great!
This was really helpful, but i can't get it to fully work. My first wedge is right but the other wedges move the opposite where the angle becomes the white space and the smaller the slider control are the fuller they are. Where did I mess up or how can I fix this?
This one is an old tutorial, but it made my day with what i had to do on work today. So grateful for this tutorial :) And I hate to do action script, but you explained it so easy that it got fun to do.. THANKS :)🙌😇🤗
Thanks for getting back to me so quick! Yeah that first option worked! Thanks so much, I'm using this in an animation and it looks awesome! Really good tutorials, keep up the good work!
Thanks for the tutorial EC, how would I take one section of the pie chart make it pop out, rotate it, then scale to fill the whole screen? Scale works but Ive tried keying in rotation and the shape rotates but the radial wipe stays in the same place?
since each pie piece is dependant on it's neighbour this will require some retooling on your part but you could try splitting the layer and pre-composing it at the moment of removal from the rest of the pies.
Hi, I got a problem here. I followed every single step up to where you have to enter "100-" into the expression completion part at 2:52. Whenever I enter the number, nothing happens, and my pie chart doesn't move. It says that my expression contains "error 1 of 1", but I honestly don't know how to fix this, as I haven't added or tampered with the expression already given to me, outside of "100-". If you know any possible reason why this is happening, do you think you could get back to me please? I have a project due in a couple hours, and this is getting so frustrating that I'm probably just going to chuck the whole thing and just not show up to class to hand in anything. Thanks.
+skyehare4 Why are you tampering with the 100- part? Does that not seem like it might be important in your understanding of how the expression works? If the expression is hard why not just keyframe everything?
+ECAbrams So am I mistaken, and you actually DON'T add "100-" to the expression? Other than adding that, I haven't messed with the expression given. I'm afraid to just keyframe everything, because I'm not terribly good at using the slider and radial wipe and all that, since I'm such a beginner with these types of effects.. Chances are I'll just create an even bigger mess of my chart.
+skyehare4 SO I type it then then delete it later? I think it might be important so maybe pay close attention to what all that's about. Do you understand why the 100- is in there in the transition completion property?
Bro, I just started After Effects as such, this is second tutorial I'm watching on doing something at all. I did what he did, and it worked for me up until one point.
Thanks for this tutorial! I actually don't plan on using pie graphs at all for a while but it may come in handy one day But I learned more about controls/expressions which I think may be very useful!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Took me a couple hours of replaying each step but it helped a lot! For some reason the graph editor didn't come up looking like yours but overall it turned out great.
Wondering how you animate out the pie chart wedges in your sample at the end so that it is not simply a rewind out of the wedges in the reverse direction they animated into place. Your sample appears to have the wedges animate out clockwise. Is this possible via setting keyframes? Not sure how you did this.
Simultaneously? Like at the same time? I tab between them to enter them one at a time at 8:10 is that what you mean? Or do you mean when I edited a jump cut to remove unneeded footage from the tutorial?
ECAbrams ah yeah i thought it might have been a cut, but it was quite seamless so i found myself wondering if you were maybe holding a random modifier key while entering the first value which auto-filled the other values. it was just good editing/ VO though. random question haha i just found myself curious about it
Do you know how to animate a pie-chart purely made up of empty shape layers with just strokes? A shape layer stroke doesn't go fully around the pie section when using the radial wipe and the stroke layer style only works with a fill (as far as I can tell). Cheers
This video is great! But I have one question. After the radial wipe completes, and the pie chart is visible, I want it to delay for a few seconds, then use a radial wipe to become invisible again. Would you use a delay expression, if so, how would you use it? I am new, and I have a feeling the answer is very obvious, but I just can't find it. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
Why don´t you make new keyframes at the points you want and adjust the radial wipe so it goes backwards? Btw I guess you found an answer anyway since you asked your question 8 month ago...
Sorry having one slight issue here. Can anyone tell me how to edit the Start angel at 03:46? I have no idea how to get into that part to code it. Tried double clicking right clicking, clickity clicking. No Joy. On a Mac
My "Start angle" under Wedge 2 didn't have a expand arrow next to it. When you clicked on it, all of a sudden a down arrow appeared next to it and it let you add an expression. How did you do that?
Great tutorial but I have a question -- how do you get the outlines over the wedges like in your example in the beginning? I can only seem to get the outlines to work around the outer edge, not around the whole wedge.
he precomposes it, adds stroke to the pre-comp, then changes the option to center instead of outside... however I still have a problem with it as the last wedge outline disappears when it reaches 100%.
Hey great video! I had a problem though. Whenever you added the easy ease function to the keyframes, you were able to pull there bezier all at once and I can't seem to do that. I highlight them all but when I go the that graphic view I can only grab a single handle and it only effects the one wedge. is there a button you press the grab all of them together for a single move?
+Trevor Mery no button, but maybe your view settings aren't the same on the graph editor? I would have to be where you are to know. Best I can say is select the things, then go to the editor, then move the things.
I figured out how to move them together. I was highlighted on all keyframes instead of just the end frames so it wasn't grabbing properly. I think I have what I need thanks!
Really appreciate this tutorial and looking forward to a potential bar graph one as well! Question - what would you recommend I do if I want to label each section and it's values, and have the values change as the pieces increase/decrease?
hi , I have problem with expression p and a. p it's working but a not.The error is: Error at line 2 in property 'start Angle' of layer 2('wedge 2') in comp 'Comp 2'.) does not have a value ., an expression was disabled as a result of an error. please how can i fix this error.Thanks
+marzieh mazaheri sounds like you need to make sure there is a value in line 2. What did you write in the expression that isn't working? I can't really diagnose a problem from the information I have here.
I could. But "cool" is a subjective word. I happen to thing thin diagonal stripes and subtle gradients look nice. But what is a cool background for you?
Thanks Evan for a very wonderful tutorial. Just one question...after pre-comping, and applying the Layer Style / Stroke that you suggested, when the chart gets to 360 degrees the stroke between the first and last wedges of the chart disappears. Do you know how to avoid this? Thanks in advance for any help...
Shouldn't it disappear? If there are no pixels between it there should be no stroke between it. Where would the stroke be if not on the outer bounds of the alpha for the layer?
ECAbrams That seems like a very valid point. What I'm confused about is that the only stroke that disappears is between the first and last segments. When the sequence gets to 360 degrees all the strokes remain except that one. Aren't there no pixels between the other wedges either, and if so why are the strokes still there...? Anyhow, what I'm ultimately hoping is that you have a magic idea of how to keep the stroke when the entire circle closes up. Thanks again....
This was very helpful. I was wondering if it is possible to do the same thing with a pie chart which was designed in Illustrator? I couldn't get it to work.
It may well be possible. But you will have to use different techniques to accomplish what you're after. Or modify these techniques to do it. All things are possible.
Hello Evan. I am trying to animate wedges after they all have reached 100%. The problem i am having is following: i have to make one of the wedges start where the previous ends and end where the next starts in order to get correct percentage as i am linking charts to the numbers. Hope you understand and can help. Thanks in advance.
+ECAbrams the part i am stuck on is not in the tutorial. The last wedge (the one that completes the circle) with "index+1" thing is not referencing the first wedge in the chart. When i keyframe slider control values the last wedge goes under the first one. Visually it isn't a problem, but as i am trying to link values to numbers to show the percentage of each wedge, the last wedge is shown with greater number then the visible part, since there is also a part of it that goes under the first wedge.
+Elia Litvinük Okay. What if you, instead of linking so literally, threw a little math into the expression to account for the parts you cannot see? Or What if instead you linked the text layer to a slider control and just keyframed that?
+ECAbrams hey, thanks for the reply, Evan. I've tried to keyframe that, but as they are all easy eased and moving not at the same time it is very hard to get the precise result. I thought about the expression for keeping a sum of wedges always at 100 or something but failed. Would appreciate it if you could give me a clue on this one.
I still can't figure out how to collapse the chart clockwise, i can only reverse the clockwise action so that it folds back up nto itself...i want it to go the other way, I'm totally new at this, i'm sorry but could you tell me what i'm doing wrong?
The pie can be closing the way it came on, but at the same time, it is also rotating the opposite way much faster. I think that's how I made the motion originally.
So you say that you can make the pie fold back into itself. Start with that. I'm imagining that means the thing "unfolds" clockwise, so the leading edge is moving clockwise. Then you have it fold back up so the leading edge seems to go counter clockwise, basically the thing you see but in reverse. So what if that is happening BUT the whole chart is also rotating fast enough so it seems that it's packing up the other way.
There are many ways. Matte layers spring to mind. Basically, duplicate the pie graph, make one with strokes, one without, use one to remove from the other?
I have the problem that the pies are able to overlap or there are gaps between them. Somethings seems to be wrong with the "starting angle", but I can't figure it out. Does someone have the same issue?
I've gotten over my fear of expressions. I just need to learn more of the language. Do you have an Expression to English phrase book? As always, great tutorial Evan, I honestly didn't expect much from Pie Charts, but well done.
wow best tutorial ever. did not understand anything about expressions but it worked flawlessly. Thank you very very much.
Spent the whole day trying to adjust a pie chart from some other tutorial on youtube. And then along comes the Mr Abrams and makes the whole thing dynamic. Old tutorial but still gold! Thanks!
Glad to hear it. :) An oven is just a box till the heat is on right? A fridge is actually more damaging to cameras because of moisture and condensation on the internal parts.
You are truly one of the best after effects tutor on web. The thing you keep so much work by doing tutorials, Q&A and posting cool stuff on FB and you doing it for free is really amazing. Thanks again for all this stuff, I really amazed by your going and works.
Thanks EC! I just followed your tutorial but with ellipse shapes and strokes, so it doesn't rely on an effect. And it works PERFECTLY! You are the best
The stroked ellipse is the way of the future!
As a novice in After Effects and kind of intimidated, I appreciate your easy-going and friednly style. Your making those very technical and intriguing steps comprehensible. I'll keep watching.
No worries, Glad you like it. I'll see what I can do about the other cart types.
did you check the box that says counter clockwise?
Fluid dynamics are hard to fake but I'll see what I can do. Cheers and thanks for the suggestion.
I like the straight and simple explanation without to many "I-am-cool-its-awsome-like-me"-Stuff ! Thank you!
did you try alt clicking? How about command clicking? How about option clicking? Any of those... primarily the first one.
I'm doing an infographic presentation and this tutorial is pure gold. Your tutorials are amazing, I've already learned so much, thank you :)
does mine? When does it do that?
Great Tutorial! I think this is the perfect speed for people to go back and watch again and for us more advanced users to get quickly.
Just in time for pie?
How about a 1 month trial version from Adobe? Have you tried that out?
Is there a particular reason for wanting that to happen. this one was already uploaded at 1080p and cannot be changed. If you want to watch in 720 there is an option on the player.
I fucking love your tutorials.
Hi! I'm stuck at 4:20. For some reason I don't have a drop down for start angle and I can't put the angle expressions in. I'm working with AE CC. This is a great tuts btw, I've watched this like 10 times and I don't know what step I'm missing. :/
+Aubrey Be you need to hold alt and click the stopwatch to be able to type in an expression. Is that where you're stuck.
Great tutorial. But how would I then go about exploding the pie chart after this? Would it be better to create accurate pie chart in illustrator then reveal the segments in a slider/wipe control? Then animating each as a separate layer. Or is there a more elegant way inside after effects? thanks
Your wealth of knowledge just literally made me chuckle out loud to myself.
Love it. Simple, nice, easy doing.
Thanks. Glad you enjoy it.
This has to be the highest ratio of convoluted solution to simple task that I have ever seen. This is like if you asked someone how to tie your own shoes and they asked you to craft a da vinci-era mechanical padlock to wear on your feet.
I ended up doing this project over completely three times before I got it right...but it was so worth it for the final product! Thank you so much, awesome video : )
bro, congrats for your awesome job. I started studying cinema effects and now Im diving deep this new world and the last few weeks I could learn lot of new things, including this you teach in this video. Thanks, +1 follower. cheers!
Charts are rad, and people need to make them more often. I usually use the adobe help file expression reference tbh. It's very handy. But much like learning other languages I really only pick it up as I need it so I can order a beer and find the bathroom in After Effects expressions.
Well enjoy. I'll see what i can do about your background quandary. Have you seem but tutorial on gradients that's up already?
Enjoy. Coming soon... bar and line graphs! ooooooh! And scatter plot. And maybe area graphs.
ctrl or command + d. Commit that to memory. It's as good as copy, paste, and cut.
I loved the tutorial. You were prepared, took us on a step by step path, and were totally professional. I appreciate it when the presenter is totally on his game and knows exactly what he is doing. You do, sir. Great job!
Could you do a tutorial on how to make a beer glass fill animation in AE? That would be pretty cool. (Then you can do the fridge intro)
Thanks, Evan. I find myself avoiding expressions, but the examples you give in this tutorial are too effective to ignore. More tuts with expressions would be great!
Glad you like it. To move it? precomp it. Then move that.
This tutorial was perfect, great job man. Easy to follow and exactly what I was looking for.
Used it, love it. Great scripting man, that all made a lot of sense actually
This was really helpful, but i can't get it to fully work. My first wedge is right but the other wedges move the opposite where the angle becomes the white space and the smaller the slider control are the fuller they are. Where did I mess up or how can I fix this?
what's it matter?
This one is an old tutorial, but it made my day with what i had to do on work today. So grateful for this tutorial :) And I hate to do action script, but you explained it so easy that it got fun to do.. THANKS :)🙌😇🤗
Thanks for getting back to me so quick! Yeah that first option worked! Thanks so much, I'm using this in an animation and it looks awesome! Really good tutorials, keep up the good work!
something like that. I usually talk and do at the same time then chop and splice as needed later.
thank you so much for these tutorials! i always love them
Could you do a tutorial on how to use the camera like you did the lyric video "No Matter"? It looks like the text in scrolling
Brilliant tutorial! Exactly what I was after with no fluffing around. Well explained too. Keep it up!
Thanks for the tutorial EC, how would I take one section of the pie chart make it pop out, rotate it, then scale to fill the whole screen? Scale works but Ive tried keying in rotation and the shape rotates but the radial wipe stays in the same place?
since each pie piece is dependant on it's neighbour this will require some retooling on your part but you could try splitting the layer and pre-composing it at the moment of removal from the rest of the pies.
Well thanks, glad you like it.
Hi, I got a problem here. I followed every single step up to where you have to enter "100-" into the expression completion part at 2:52. Whenever I enter the number, nothing happens, and my pie chart doesn't move. It says that my expression contains "error 1 of 1", but I honestly don't know how to fix this, as I haven't added or tampered with the expression already given to me, outside of "100-". If you know any possible reason why this is happening, do you think you could get back to me please? I have a project due in a couple hours, and this is getting so frustrating that I'm probably just going to chuck the whole thing and just not show up to class to hand in anything. Thanks.
+skyehare4 Why are you tampering with the 100- part? Does that not seem like it might be important in your understanding of how the expression works? If the expression is hard why not just keyframe everything?
+ECAbrams So am I mistaken, and you actually DON'T add "100-" to the expression? Other than adding that, I haven't messed with the expression given. I'm afraid to just keyframe everything, because I'm not terribly good at using the slider and radial wipe and all that, since I'm such a beginner with these types of effects.. Chances are I'll just create an even bigger mess of my chart.
+skyehare4 SO I type it then then delete it later? I think it might be important so maybe pay close attention to what all that's about. Do you understand why the 100- is in there in the transition completion property?
Bro, I just started After Effects as such, this is second tutorial I'm watching on doing something at all. I did what he did, and it worked for me up until one point.
That's encouraging. Thanks for sharing what you've learned.
dont know whats going wrong but i cant see the code bar that you link the 1st circle effect with the slider. Any help??
Thanks for this tutorial! I actually don't plan on using pie graphs at all for a while but it may come in handy one day
But I learned more about controls/expressions which I think may be very useful!
Thanks for the simple and entertaining tutorial!
My after effects not show the option "express... transition complete". Do you know why? ):
Great tutorial, helped me alot on my Pie project!!! liked and subscribed!
hi friend
how many numbers of values can make it
for examle 11 value
Thanks! It was one of the most instructive tutorials I have ever watched.
I'm actually going to use this for presentations, thanks man
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Took me a couple hours of replaying each step but it helped a lot! For some reason the graph editor didn't come up looking like yours but overall it turned out great.
+KiddPenn most likely you were looking at a value graph instead of a speed graph. You can change which it is at the bottom of the graph.
+ECAbrams Ohhh! The mystery is solved! Thank you again!
Useful and crystal clear. Thanks for this extremely valuable tut!
Wondering how you animate out the pie chart wedges in your sample at the end so that it is not simply a rewind out of the wedges in the reverse direction they animated into place. Your sample appears to have the wedges animate out clockwise. Is this possible via setting keyframes? Not sure how you did this.
The video starts at 00:42
But seriously this was super helpful, thank you.
I just mean to have it build then the wedges to separate by a few pixels. That answers my question though. Thanks!
hey quick question: how did you change the values simultaneously so quickly like you did @ 8:10? thanks
Simultaneously? Like at the same time? I tab between them to enter them one at a time at 8:10 is that what you mean? Or do you mean when I edited a jump cut to remove unneeded footage from the tutorial?
ECAbrams ah yeah i thought it might have been a cut, but it was quite seamless so i found myself wondering if you were maybe holding a random modifier key while entering the first value which auto-filled the other values.
it was just good editing/ VO though. random question haha i just found myself curious about it
Do you know how to animate a pie-chart purely made up of empty shape layers with just strokes? A shape layer stroke doesn't go fully around the pie section when using the radial wipe and the stroke layer style only works with a fill (as far as I can tell). Cheers
This video is great! But I have one question. After the radial wipe completes, and the pie chart is visible, I want it to delay for a few seconds, then use a radial wipe to become invisible again. Would you use a delay expression, if so, how would you use it? I am new, and I have a feeling the answer is very obvious, but I just can't find it. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
Why don´t you make new keyframes at the points you want and adjust the radial wipe so it goes backwards?
Btw I guess you found an answer anyway since you asked your question 8 month ago...
Sorry having one slight issue here. Can anyone tell me how to edit the Start angel at 03:46? I have no idea how to get into that part to code it. Tried double clicking right clicking, clickity clicking. No Joy. On a Mac
How do you add text or a percentage to each wedge?
I'll see what I can do. Thanks for the suggestion
thanks so much! people like you make me excited to create! Ngibonga kakhulu.
My "Start angle" under Wedge 2 didn't have a expand arrow next to it. When you clicked on it, all of a sudden a down arrow appeared next to it and it let you add an expression. How did you do that?
You'll need to hold alt and click on the stopwatch to enable expressions on that property.
Great tutorial I love your voice, I also can't believe you actually put the camera in the oven :D
Great tutorial but I have a question -- how do you get the outlines over the wedges like in your example in the beginning? I can only seem to get the outlines to work around the outer edge, not around the whole wedge.
he precomposes it, adds stroke to the pre-comp, then changes the option to center instead of outside... however I still have a problem with it as the last wedge outline disappears when it reaches 100%.
well if I were you I would precompose the layers and them move them manually. Not sure how you mean "explode" but that would do it.
This video saved me like an hour of hassle. The other tutorials overthink and engineer this
Oh I'm sure there will be more. Think of them as linkage or relation ships and you'll be better able to find a place for them in your day :)
Hey great video! I had a problem though. Whenever you added the easy ease function to the keyframes, you were able to pull there bezier all at once and I can't seem to do that. I highlight them all but when I go the that graphic view I can only grab a single handle and it only effects the one wedge. is there a button you press the grab all of them together for a single move?
+Trevor Mery no button, but maybe your view settings aren't the same on the graph editor? I would have to be where you are to know. Best I can say is select the things, then go to the editor, then move the things.
I figured out how to move them together. I was highlighted on all keyframes instead of just the end frames so it wasn't grabbing properly. I think I have what I need thanks!
Bahahaha. "It Does't really matter what size the composition.... just make one." Love your tutorials.
Hey, nice video! Just that please call out the keyboard shortcuts whenever you use them, had a little difficulty figuring it out. Thank you!
In the newer videos, we put the keystrokes up on screen for that very reason. Maybe the newer stuff is better now?
For some reason the index expression comes up as an expression error for me, even though I've just put what you've done. Any advice on what to do?
can you copy/paste what you have in the chat, and let me know what error it's giving you specifically?
Really appreciate this tutorial and looking forward to a potential bar graph one as well! Question - what would you recommend I do if I want to label each section and it's values, and have the values change as the pieces increase/decrease?
hi , I have problem with expression p and a.
p it's working but a not.The error is: Error at line 2 in property 'start Angle' of layer 2('wedge 2') in comp 'Comp 2'.) does not have a value ., an expression was disabled as a result of an error.
please how can i fix this error.Thanks
+marzieh mazaheri sounds like you need to make sure there is a value in line 2. What did you write in the expression that isn't working? I can't really diagnose a problem from the information I have here.
I got it all eventually but holy shit, you blew my mind at least 10 times throughout this video.
I can't find expression transition button to link I am using AE CC version on iMac
as far as I know (but I have no Apple) you have to press Command ⌘ button and then click with the cursor on the clock!
I'm making a presentation and this made my day!, thanks a lot, never though of that solution of the expression in the start angle.
I could. But "cool" is a subjective word. I happen to thing thin diagonal stripes and subtle gradients look nice. But what is a cool background for you?
I keep getting an error when I precompose this. It cant find the layer name
Awesome, super helpful. Thanks a lot for your channel!
Thanks Evan for a very wonderful tutorial. Just one question...after pre-comping, and applying the Layer Style / Stroke that you suggested, when the chart gets to 360 degrees the stroke between the first and last wedges of the chart disappears. Do you know how to avoid this? Thanks in advance for any help...
Shouldn't it disappear? If there are no pixels between it there should be no stroke between it. Where would the stroke be if not on the outer bounds of the alpha for the layer?
ECAbrams That seems like a very valid point. What I'm confused about is that the only stroke that disappears is between the first and last segments. When the sequence gets to 360 degrees all the strokes remain except that one. Aren't there no pixels between the other wedges either, and if so why are the strokes still there...? Anyhow, what I'm ultimately hoping is that you have a magic idea of how to keep the stroke when the entire circle closes up. Thanks again....
***** Thanks very much, I never continued with it at the time but will try again now. Appreciated!
This was very helpful. I was wondering if it is possible to do the same thing with a pie chart which was designed in Illustrator? I couldn't get it to work.
It may well be possible. But you will have to use different techniques to accomplish what you're after. Or modify these techniques to do it. All things are possible.
ECAbrams Thanks, I'll give it another try. Keep the tutorials coming!
Hello Evan. I am trying to animate wedges after they all have reached 100%. The problem i am having is following: i have to make one of the wedges start where the previous ends and end where the next starts in order to get correct percentage as i am linking charts to the numbers. Hope you understand and can help. Thanks in advance.
+Elia Litvinük so where are you stuck on this? Which part of the situation is not working out for you?
+ECAbrams the part i am stuck on is not in the tutorial. The last wedge (the one that completes the circle) with "index+1" thing is not referencing the first wedge in the chart. When i keyframe slider control values the last wedge goes under the first one. Visually it isn't a problem, but as i am trying to link values to numbers to show the percentage of each wedge, the last wedge is shown with greater number then the visible part, since there is also a part of it that goes under the first wedge.
+Elia Litvinük Okay. What if you, instead of linking so literally, threw a little math into the expression to account for the parts you cannot see? Or What if instead you linked the text layer to a slider control and just keyframed that?
+ECAbrams hey, thanks for the reply, Evan. I've tried to keyframe that, but as they are all easy eased and moving not at the same time it is very hard to get the precise result. I thought about the expression for keeping a sum of wedges always at 100 or something but failed. Would appreciate it if you could give me a clue on this one.
you're welcome. Enjoy :)
Thanks for the tutorial, your energy is nice and engaging.
I just am not seeing how to duplicate the slider control....what's the trick?
Thanks.
Nevermind, I should have Googled it before bothering you. Thanks again for the great tutorial.
I still can't figure out how to collapse the chart clockwise, i can only reverse the clockwise action so that it folds back up nto itself...i want it to go the other way, I'm totally new at this, i'm sorry but could you tell me what i'm doing wrong?
The pie can be closing the way it came on, but at the same time, it is also rotating the opposite way much faster. I think that's how I made the motion originally.
ECAbrams no idea what you mean.
So you say that you can make the pie fold back into itself. Start with that. I'm imagining that means the thing "unfolds" clockwise, so the leading edge is moving clockwise. Then you have it fold back up so the leading edge seems to go counter clockwise, basically the thing you see but in reverse. So what if that is happening BUT the whole chart is also rotating fast enough so it seems that it's packing up the other way.
This reply and "pure white is so last year" goes in my "ECAbrams quotes" book! ;)
Don't I talk about that error? Maybe not. It's because it needs to be told to look at a specific comp and not "thisComp"
Ok, I don't know why but I can't seem to duplicate slider control from effect controls, is there a reason why this is happening?
None that I know of. What process are you doing exactly?
@@ECAbrams Am copying the exact same things you did, my version of AE is 2015. I had it updated just earlier.
Nvm, I just have to right click and select slider control. Made things easier.
I just simply adore your style =)) sweet tutorials!
Great stuff! Is there a way to have a space instead of a stroke?
There are many ways. Matte layers spring to mind. Basically, duplicate the pie graph, make one with strokes, one without, use one to remove from the other?
That's very clever and simple to do. Thanks a lot!
Best pie chart tutorial , thanxxx
This is a fantastic video, thank you! Your tutorial was exactly what I needed.
I have the problem that the pies are able to overlap or there are gaps between them. Somethings seems to be wrong with the "starting angle", but I can't figure it out. Does someone have the same issue?
I've gotten over my fear of expressions. I just need to learn more of the language. Do you have an Expression to English phrase book?
As always, great tutorial Evan, I honestly didn't expect much from Pie Charts, but well done.
Great turorial, easy and clear to learn.
ECAbrams you're awesome tutor!