script help

[ggg]

you can shift image sequences in time in the fxtree, and if scripting is nessessary (it's hard to unserstand why from your description) script access to the time offset values is straightforward.

Could you claify what you are asking for? 2 different objects? or one object with trailing duplicates? or fading duplicates?
a trailing image 2d effect? is the 2nd object is following the exact same path? or actual transformation lag?

[suntemple]

Hi ggg,
It is a 2-d effect. Flares to be exact. There are a series of them following one another. They are sperate 2-d effects layers all based on the same brightness etc preset that i made.
Right now I have them animated arriving at the same positions in x and y but each one begins and ends three frames behind the one in front of it. So if the 1st flare starts at posy290 posx300 at frame 1 the second flare would start at the same place only three frames later at frame 4. I was thinking about having a relative script drive all of this but I would need a frame off set function in order for it to have the sucessive trailing flare effect. Other wise I might use a relative script with a distance off set but I would have to calculate off set for both x and y positions and I think off setting the time would be faster and less headache.
Hope this is a little more clear.
Thanks for the reply,
JAS.

[suntemple]

Found a good tutorial/explanation of expressions at ed.Harriss.com.
The time off set script was there
http://enemy.mesmer.com/moebius/FMPro?-db=article&-format=free%5ftutorial%5fread.html&-sortfield=LearningOrder&-op=eq&ProductName=XSI%20Illuminated%3a%20Expressions&-max=1&-find=.

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