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by zlovatt
April 8th, 2018, 8:55 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Online Documentation Guides
Replies: 2
Views: 88082

Re: Online Documentation Guides

simonrobots wrote:One of the links is incorrect. It should be estk.aenhancers.com, not eskt.aenhancers.com as shown.

This is a great resource. Thank you.
Embarrassing! Fixed. 
by zlovatt
February 14th, 2018, 12:55 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Add layer to comp
Replies: 2
Views: 8965

Re: Add layer to comp

Yes, you certainly can.

Look at "layers.add" : http://docs.aenhancers.com/layers/layer ... ection-add


Code: Select all

var item = // your solid;
var comp = app.project.activeItem;
var itemAsLayer = comp.layers.add(item);
by zlovatt
December 6th, 2017, 8:02 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Online Documentation Guides
Replies: 2
Views: 88082

Online Documentation Guides

Below are links to scripting guides and documentation for various products, all of which are kept up-to-date with the latest releases of the host application, and are easily bookmarkable/searchable/savable. All are open-source, public contribution-friendly, and are the result of many hours and days ...
by zlovatt
December 6th, 2017, 7:57 pm
Forum: Script Tutorials
Topic: Atom text editor for after effects scripting
Replies: 10
Views: 54895

Re: Atom text editor for after effects scripting

This Zack doesn't use Atom, and never has. I used to use Sublime Text 3 with a heavily modified version of Sebastian Lavoie's "Extendscript" package to easily execute scripts directly in AE. His version would copy scripts to specific folders and I found this unnecessary, so modified it to ...
by zlovatt
December 6th, 2017, 7:47 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Get world position of trim path point?
Replies: 1
Views: 7886

Re: Get world position of trim path point?

Using CC18 and later, AE expressions have access to more path-related functions; you can use "pointOnPath" and feed it a % to get the actual X and Y positions along a path and different percents.

Check out the documentation here: http://expressions.aenhancers.com/path-property.html
by zlovatt
July 5th, 2017, 12:19 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Need help about a script! (New to scripting)
Replies: 2
Views: 8131

Re: Need help about a script! (New to scripting)

Luckily this is a simple fix! Change from this-- for (var i=0; i <= selectedItems.length; i++) { to-- for (var i=0; i < selectedItems.length; i++) { The issue is that selectedItems is an array counting from 0; if there were 3 elements, you would access them by array[0], array[1], array[2]. So, you w...
by zlovatt
March 20th, 2017, 1:57 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Change Font and Font Style by script
Replies: 4
Views: 43220

Re: Change Font and Font Style by script

Via Tomas Sinkunas, these are all the script-accessible text properties. It looks like you'll need to set the font to "Arial-Bold" and that could work. var textLayer = comp1_comp.layers.addText("This is BOLD"); var textLayer_TextProp = textLayer.property("ADBE Text Propertie...
by zlovatt
March 13th, 2017, 5:46 pm
Forum: Expression Discussion
Topic: How to Apply specific values to a Slider Control
Replies: 3
Views: 18625

Re: How to Apply specific values to a Slider Control

@runegan Thanks! Forgot about that. Updated my post.
by zlovatt
March 11th, 2017, 1:42 pm
Forum: Expression Discussion
Topic: How to Apply specific values to a Slider Control
Replies: 3
Views: 18625

Re: How to Apply specific values to a Slider Control

Hey Melvin, One approach would be to store all of the values in an array, and then have the slider control which item in the array it returns. * Edited: forgot clamp() was available in expressions, thanks runegan!* // Get the slider var slider = effect("Slider Control")("Slider")...
by zlovatt
February 15th, 2017, 11:47 pm
Forum: Script requests
Topic: Make a script to parent bottom layer to current selected layer.
Replies: 2
Views: 13275

Re: Make a script to parent bottom layer to current selected layer.

I've written something like this before, you can view it here . Only difference is, in this case the selected layers parent to the layer above, not the other way around. Save this somewhere, select each layer you want to be parented, and then run the script and it will parent each selected layer to ...
by zlovatt
November 23rd, 2016, 1:52 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: system.callSystem and clipboard not working
Replies: 3
Views: 12629

Re: system.callSystem and clipboard not working

While this is an ancient post, it's the most recent of various "callSystem copy to clipboard" threads. So -- here's how you can do this on Windows. My guess is that the first instance of `cmd` is closing before the output can be fed to the clipboard, but nesting it like this works just fin...
by zlovatt
November 9th, 2016, 6:02 am
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Set Marker Duration
Replies: 3
Views: 9691

Re: Set Marker Duration

Note that this feature was only added in AE 14.0 -- there's an example code block here that shows how you can do it.
by zlovatt
November 7th, 2016, 1:46 pm
Forum: Expression Discussion
Topic: Expression explanation
Replies: 1
Views: 16567

Re: Expression explanation

I'd say it's using sourceRectAsTime-- check out this tutorial for a good how-to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI3yzx6CATg
by zlovatt
November 4th, 2016, 7:18 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Online, Searchable AE Scripting Guide
Replies: 1
Views: 22426

Online, Searchable AE Scripting Guide

Hey! Tired of dealing with After-Effects-CS6-Scripting-Guide.pdf? Wondering what's changed since 2012 in the scripting API? Looking for SOME form of documentation for the little quirks and gotchas of what IS in the guide? Head over to  http://docs.aenhancers.com/ for an updated, searchable version o...
by zlovatt
November 4th, 2016, 7:13 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: After Effects CC 2017 (14.0) New Scripting Functionality
Replies: 0
Views: 17746

After Effects CC 2017 (14.0) New Scripting Functionality

Scripting Access to Tools ( app.project.toolType ) Scripting Access to Composition Markers ( comp.markerProperty ) Scripting Access to Queue in AME ( app.project.renderQueue.queueInAME(render_immediately_in_AME) ) Scripting Access to Available GPU Acceleration Options ( app.availableGPUAccelTypes )...