I have a line drawing animation that I applied a wiggle effect to in AE. Bodymovin exports the line animation perfectly, but WITHOUT the wiggle effect.
Anyone know if this is possible or maybe I’m missing some checkbox in AE or the Bodymovin export selections?
You aren’t missing anything, Wiggle is an expression based effect and isn’t yet supported by Lottie. That’s not to say no expression are supported, but this one isn’t.
If you’re working with Lottie I recommend going as far as to follow them on Github and check the logs, issues and discussions regularly, this is the only place where you’ll get informations (and answers, if you’re lucky)…
Hi @spoulos and @vincent ,
It’s also possible to convert expressions to keyframes, then export using the bodymovin plugin.
It doesn’t always work with really complex expressions, but see if it works for the wiggle expression.
In after effects:
select the layer
pres EE to show all expressions on that layer
select each property you want to convert
go to Animation > Keyframe Assistant > Convert Expressions to Keyframes
I totally agree with the idea of exchanging tips and trick. There are still a lot of small issues with the Lottie integration, so a place to solve and evolve would be nice.
Not sure if you’re still looking but I randomy figured it out. Right click on the wiggles/second property and select edit expression, which will show you the expression. You can then proceed the steps of right clicking on wiggles/second, keyframe assistant, convert to keyframes.
edit: Nevermind, its not the case. My understanding is that the wiggles per second property isn’t a path so converting to keyframes won’t make a difference to the paths. I’ve just been creating the wiggle effect manually for now.