• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Adding a shape to shape layer

  Posted by Sébastien Lavoie on October 14, 2012 at 7:39 pm

  Hi,

  I am actually writing a script for After Effects and there is something I cannot find in your documentation (I use this https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/files/2012/06/After-Effects-CS6-Scripting-Guide.pdf as I think it’s the most recent version).

  I have successfully created a shape layer and added it to my comp and I want to add an ellipse to it. I have found how to add a circle mask to it but I would want to use the myShapeLayer.Contents as I see it exists.

  What methods the Contents object has?

  shapeLayer = currentComp.layers.addShape();

  shapeLayer.Contents. //What can i do here?

  Sébastien Lavoie replied 12 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  October 14, 2012 at 8:21 pm

  Try this:

  var shapeLayer = currentComp.layers.addShape();
  var shapeLayerContents = shapeLayer.property(“Contents”);
  var shapeGroup = shapeLayerContents.addProperty(“ADBE Vector Group”);
  var ellipse = shapeGroup.property(“Contents”).addProperty(“ADBE Vector Shape – Ellipse”);

  Dan
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  Sébastien Lavoie

  October 14, 2012 at 8:38 pm

  Excellent! This works perfectly, thanks a lot!
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  Hugo Tait

  December 27, 2013 at 12:24 pm

  I’ve got my script to add the shape vectors in a shape layer but I can’t find out how to get it to add a fill. can you point me in the right direction?
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  Dan Ebberts

  December 27, 2013 at 6:34 pm

  From your shape layer, assuming you have already added the “ADBE Vector Group” and the “ADBE Vectors Group” properties, it should look like this:

  myShapeLayer.property(“ADBE Root Vectors Group”).property(“ADBE Vector Group”).property(“ADBE Vectors Group”).addProperty(“ADBE Vector Graphic – Fill”);

  Dan
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  Sébastien Lavoie

  December 27, 2013 at 6:39 pm

  You will want to use the .addProperty("ADBE Vector Graphic - Fill") method. As in…

  var shapeLayer                  = currentComp.layers.addShape();  
  var shapeGroup                = shapeLayer.property("Contents").addProperty("ADBE Vector Group");
  var fill = shapeGroup.property("Contents").addProperty("ADBE Vector Graphic - Fill")
  

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