PowerPoint and Keynote Style Transitions

Beginners
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I’m using TD similar to PPT in a couple of projects but am struggling with the best way to proceed with creating simple/quick animations as image transitions.

Beginners: I haven’t completely annotated the file but there may be a couple of concepts used that are obvious. Please let me know if they aren’t obvious and we’ll point them out to you - this took me quite a while to figure out, especially being new at procedural animation & programming.

Seasoned Beginners: Do you see anything that could be done better? There’s a lot I have not yet added to make this a functional application but I’m just playing with transition possibilities at this point.

Experts: Is there a better approach or example I should take while attempting these transitions? Rob Bairos created the fx for transition3 (thanks Rob!) but I haven’t quite brained out the back side of the grid flip. I think I need a 2nd grid for this.

Again, let me know if you have any question or comments.
Thanks.

Brain.
TOPTransitions.17.toe (19.9 KB)

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Your networks are nice and clean, easy to understand.

To grab the channels out of /control/chan in each of the transitions I would recommend using a Select CHOP instead of the Constant CHOP w/expression you use.
This way your expression in the Constant CHOP

op('../control/chan')[str(me.parent().base) + str(me.parent().digits)]

can be simplified to the following in the Channel Name parameter of the Select CHOP

me.parent().name

The output connectors from the 1st and 3rd transition COMPs aren’t consistent, one I think for transistion3 you mean to have the Render → Out

The second transition opens with errors, so I can’t check it out. It is looking for something called …/slicer which doesn’t exist and is giving errors. This is in build 20560.