• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Detect whether array or number is needed?

  Posted by Noel Powell on June 22, 2012 at 10:56 pm

  Hi. I have an expression that needs to work for basically all parameters. The expression returns a number, but I want that number to be of dimension 2 if needed. So if the expression returns the number 50, it should return 50 if the expression is in a Rotation parameter, and [50,50] if in the Scale parameter. I’ve tried the catch error statement but that doesn’t seem to work for this error. If I put the following code in the Scale parameter, I still get an error. Is there another way to detect if an array or number is needed?
  Thank you for your time.

  try
{ 50 }
catch (error)
{ [50,50] }

  Noel Powell replied 14 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Dan Ebberts

  June 22, 2012 at 11:43 pm

  Try this:

  if (value instanceof Array) [50,50] else 50

  Dan
• 

  Noel Powell

  June 22, 2012 at 11:52 pm

  That’s what I needed. Thank you again, Dan.

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