I'd be interested in seeing a palette that would allow users to apply smooth, ease and linear expressions (maybe also loopOut and others) to animation curves. Basically it would allow us to select a set of Kf's and just apply the expression, a bit like Paul's Wiggle Palette. This is something Shake ...

On a mac TextEdit works fine, except that you have to make sure you change your prefs to save files as Plain Text and not RTF. Then when you save you have to specify that the file needs a .jsx extension and not a .txt extension, as TextEdit will nag you about that. A nice alternative is BBedit, but ...

Hmm, I just found an interesting thread about an idea like that here :
http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?p=35813

I'm a bit too burned today, but will see if I can adapt this to our problem tomorrow.

Alex

In fact, the problem is a bit more complex than I thought. I found out that you can in fact execute a script from an applescript (use applescript to tell AE to execute an AE script), but not the contrary. Applescript can't really talk to AE (an applescript library, if I'm not mistaken, is the amount...

Also, as I recently learned, you can't run a shutdown script without being logged in as root. I suppose you could use sudo, but you would probably need to identify, so it kind of beats the purpose of the script.

Alex

Byron, it seems there is an issue with file creator. As the .scpt file is created by AE, the mac probably thinks it has to open it with AE, which can't be done. You need to get info on a .scpt file and make sure you choose "open with" After Effects and Change All so that all .scpt files ar...

Wow, it just worked on another machine, same system Maybe there was something wrong with my airport connection at the moment I tried it with my laptop, but here on my ethernet connected machine it works just fine. This is AMAZING. Do you see any way we could interface this with Byron's Render and FT...

Hey VidPat Just tried launching the script on a mac. I put the main script in a folder, and created a (lib) folder inside this main folder. When I run the script with one item in the render queue, nothing happens. No error, no prompt, nada. I had tried running the script with the dependencies in the...

Sounds like a good idea. However I haven't seen any scripts correctly write and launch and .sh file on a mac...
Alex

Hey Micke Funny you would request that, as it is apparently something many people want. You may want to check out what Byron already started developping in that regard. Unfortunately the FTP part is quite complicated. It requires using the Socket Object, that is very poorly documented, and establish...

This new section is made for users to talk about the scripts they need. Ideas that can make their life easier, expand the potential of After Effects, save time, and combine all of the above are welcome. Your ideas are what will make scripters decide to spend time coding. Without user input it is dif...

Hello I just moved this topic from Expressions Library to Expressions Discussion. Questions and general discussion belong here, not in the library. To answer your question, the simplest way to do this is simply to add a slider control to the layer, enable expressions on the stream you want to add th...

Byron

If I'm not mistaken, you need to use the backslash \

Alex

Please do, would be very interesting to see how you did it.

Thanks
Alex

Expression created by Brian Maffit , posted to AE List ------ To place a single layer randomly in Z space, place this expression in the position stream of your layer : dist = wiggle(0,5)+5; //generates a locked random value between 0 and 10. [value[0],value[1],dist[2]] //applies value only to the z ...