ugh. Thanks for that Klustre, no coffee yet this morning.

Can't figure out how to rename the masks after they're created. I'd rather not have have them called "Mask 1" and "Mask 2" if possible. Can't seem to find anything in the scripting guide about accessing that attribute. Tried looking at TrackerViz and a few other scripts to see ho...

Super duper. I just took out the read only line and it works. Surely it IS true though and wouldn't make that much difference? I guess mask paths can only have certain expressions attached so maybe it's only half true.

Thanks for the help.

I'm trying to link 2 mask paths together inside my script. Here's a snippet of what I've got so far: newMask = LayerGrad.Masks.addProperty("Mask"); newMask.maskMode = MaskMode.NONE; newMask.maskPath.canSetExpression = true; newMask.maskPath.expression = "comp(\"" + mainComp....

After a few more discussions, and a few quick searches it was easier to convert to HSL and then invert the values that way to get the complementary colour. Used Filip Vanduerens solution from this this creative cow topic . c = thisComp.layer("master").effect("Fill")("Color&q...

Looking for an expression to automatically generate complementary colours. So far I have this (below) but it's not working for me, and I can't figure out why. Col = thisComp.layer("LIGHT CONTROLLERS").effect("Color 001")("Color") ; BitD = 32768; R = Math.round(Col[0]*Bi...

I realise that Lloyds BG Renderer is probably a better/different way to do this, but since it's a by product of a bigger script I'm writing (and since I'm very rarely in a position to actually contribute anything to this forum) here's my script to add scenes to an aerender file that you specify. It'...

Thanks Paul that's just what I was looking for. I've been doing little tests like you've suggested on other parts of the script (like opening projects and swithcing off selected layers, adding to render queue, things like that) but I was just having trouble with using the folder object returned with...

After I've defined Folder.selecDialog, how do I use that object?

For example, I want to create the new RenderQ.cmd file in the location I've picked:

Actually managed to get it working. It was pretty close. Now I'm just trying to perfect the "Folder.selectDialogue" so I can choose where to save the aerender.cmd file rather than always having to change the path in the script. Here's what's working so far on the text front: //Create New t...

I'm currently trying to get After Effects to automatically generate the aerender cmd file. The main problem I'm having is how to get the actual "current project" file path and name, I think I'm messing up on some of the escape characters aswell but I'm not sure. Any help greatly appreciate...

Appreciate it Lloyd.

Is it possible to open After Effects projects with a script? I use a script for Photoshop that searches through a selected folder, finds a psd, exports a jpeg, closes the file and then moves onto the next psd. I was hoping to be able to do something similar with AE. What I want to do is open all my ...

Awesome! The great Dan Ebberts stikes again. Thanks a million for this, this is the first time I've tried writing a script but it certainly wont be the last. I'm a bit late for Lloyds class on FXPHD but I'm hoping to include something similar for next term. Thanks again.

is it possible to just specify a folder name and set that as the parentFolder for an object? For example: var compFolder = app.project.item.name("CHAR PRECOMPS"); newComp.parentFolder = compFolder; entire script (which I shamelessly canniballised from Compify (Byron Nash, Edited and Improv...