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by stib
July 20th, 2020, 10:37 pm
Forum: Expressions Library
Topic: Creating a falling leaf effect
Replies: 3
Views: 113263

Re: Creating a falling leaf effect

You have to work out when the animation should end. The time it takes for the layer to hit the ground is the distance traveled / velocity, so you can use (start position - end position) / velocity. Position let yVelocity = 200; //pixels per second let oscFreq = 1.5; //oscillations per second let osc...
by stib
May 16th, 2020, 5:06 am
Forum: General Scripts Library
Topic: Multi-Copy-Paste script - keyframes from multiple layers
Replies: 13
Views: 58201

Re: Multi-Copy-Paste script - keyframes from multiple layers

I wrote a script that does a similar thing. It's all open-source, you can find it here: https://github.com/stibinator/stibsAEScripts/blob/master/ScriptUI%20Panels/copy_multi.jsx Note that it depends on some library functions to work. If you want to use it you'll need them, which is best done by down...
by stib
September 11th, 2019, 1:01 am
Forum: Expression Discussion
Topic: Has anyone found a practical use for the $.global object?
Replies: 5
Views: 20113

Re: Has anyone found a practical use for the $.global object?

Yes there is. You can use it to create global master functions that means you can write one expression and have it control multiple properties and multiple layers, without them simply copying the value. This is incredibly useful for procedural animation where you have scads of layers and you want th...
by stib
April 4th, 2019, 4:16 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: app.settings.getSetting not working
Replies: 1
Views: 9564

Re: app.settings.getSetting not working

If I try saving a setting like "my test settings" I notice in the prefs.txt file that the setting gets called ["settings_my test settings"] . And when I retrieve it I only specify the name as app.settings.getSetting("my test settings") Does this mean that the reason AE ...
by stib
April 3rd, 2019, 8:00 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: app.settings.getSetting not working
Replies: 1
Views: 9564

app.settings.getSetting not working

I'm trying to retrieve the label colours from the user's prefs. What I'm using is: var label1 = app.settings.getSetting("Label Preference Color Section 5", "Label Color ID 2 # 1", PREFType.PREF_Type_MACHINE_INDEPENDENT) the section name and key for the preferences are copy-pasted...
by stib
November 10th, 2015, 5:13 am
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: toWorld scripting equivalent
Replies: 2
Views: 9377

Re: toWorld scripting equivalent

I was looking for exactly the same thing. Did you find anything?
by stib
November 9th, 2015, 9:34 pm
Forum: Expression Discussion
Topic: guides - are they scriptable?
Replies: 1
Views: 10350

guides - are they scriptable?

I want to write a script that creates guides at a layer's position in the comp window, but I can't find anything in the AE Scripting guide. Is it possible to do this? Seems like it should be…
by stib
October 22nd, 2015, 5:18 am
Forum: Expression Discussion
Topic: Script from Presets
Replies: 1
Views: 9684

Re: Script from Presets

Have a look at the After Effects Scripting Guide for info on how to script after effects, and the Javascript Tools Guide for how to build UI elements.
by stib
October 22nd, 2015, 5:14 am
Forum: Expression Discussion
Topic: Make a function/script run onClick, not directly on load?
Replies: 1
Views: 10710

Re: Make a function/script run onClick, not directly on load

you call the main() function right at the bottom, so it gets called when the script loads. I think that might be your problem. Comment out the last line and see how you go.
by stib
October 22nd, 2015, 5:08 am
Forum: Expression Discussion
Topic: Scripting the Path to the AE Cache
Replies: 2
Views: 11247

Re: Scripting the Path to the AE Cache

As far as scripting AE goes I think you're out of luck. The After Effects scripting guide mentions cache settings regarding memory usage, but not anything related to the cache file location. Assuming OSX by your path, you could use this shell script to kludge it: cat <path to your current prefs file...
by stib
October 22nd, 2015, 4:37 am
Forum: Expression Discussion
Topic: link solid between different composition
Replies: 1
Views: 8946

Re: link solid between different composition

If comp A is sitting in the middle of comp B, you could make the solid S' a child of comp A and then just use the coordinates of solid S, since these coordinates will be relative to the comp-space of the nested comp A. So the expression would be: comp("Comp A").layer("S").transfo...
by stib
October 21st, 2015, 7:47 am
Forum: Expression Discussion
Topic: A 2D lookAt() function
Replies: 0
Views: 11549

A 2D lookAt() function

For 2D, the lookAt() function in After Effects’ expression language doesn’t work as expected. When the looked-at point is below the looking-from point the direction reverses. This has been driving me nuts for years, so to save me having to go back to my high school trigonometry, I've created a f...
by stib
October 7th, 2015, 7:16 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: etTemporalEaseAtKey not working properly
Replies: 0
Views: 7539

etTemporalEaseAtKey not working properly

This code: startSpeed = 10+Math.random()*80; var easeOut = new KeyframeEase(startSpeed, 100); var easeIn = new KeyframeEase(4000,0.1); //create the keyframes and ease them theEllipse.property("Size").setValueAtTime(startTime,[4440,4440]); theEllipse.property("Size").setTemporalEa...
by stib
October 7th, 2015, 7:05 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: New version of forum software
Replies: 1
Views: 22198

Re: New version of forum software

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask… The search function on this forum is a bit wonky. For example I was searching for the script function setTemporalEaseAtKey, and got this error: The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: settemporaleaseatkey. Re...