• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Can This Be Done? Dup layer object with random expression?

  Posted by Megan Shea on March 1, 2010 at 5:26 am

  Does anyone know if this can be done? I need an object on a layer to be duplicated like 100 times randomly on the x axis. Maybe a little y random could help. But I dont know programming so much. Help!

  Dan Ebberts replied 16 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dan Ebberts

  March 1, 2010 at 4:40 pm

  An expression can’t create new layers (you need a script for that) but if you apply an expression like this to a layer’s poisition property it (and each duplicate you make of the layer) will distribute itself randomly in the x direction. It’s easy to modify this expression to use a different range for x and to include some range for y as well, depending on exactly how you want it to work.

  seedRandom(index,true);
  x = random(0, thisComp.width);
  [x,value[1]]

  Dan

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