aenhancers

I'm trying to do something simple : I want to attach a ramp effect to a text layer but have the start of the ramp be at the anchor point of the text layer (by default lower left) and the end to be at the same x value as the start, but to have as y value the height of the text layer.
If I pickwhip the start of the ramp to the anchor point it goes all the way to 0.0 for the comp. And if I then put this expression in the end of the ramp
I get the end point at 0 in Y and 720 in X.

Can expressions read the size of a text layer natively?

Thanks
Alex

No, they can't. You have to use sampleImage() or some other workaround to find the layers border pixels.

Mylenium

yep, long standing bug... text layers don't report back their true size.. if you search there's a thread here that talks all about it and the workarounds..

-Lloyd