• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  missing ‘orientation’ property?

  Posted by David Cabestany on March 27, 2017 at 5:20 pm

  Anyone knows why I’m getting a missing layer/property error when I try this expression?

  Error says:
  property or method ‘orientation’ in Class ‘Group’ is missing or does not exist. It may have been renamed, etc. etc.

  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

  C=comp("PANOS");
ctrl=C.layer(2).transform.orientation[0];
L=C.layer(thisComp.name);

  k1=C.layer(2).transform.orientation[0].key(1).value;
  k2=C.layer(2).transform.orientation[0].key(2).value;

  x=ctrl.valueAtTime(time+L.startTime);
s=linear(x,k1,k2,0,160);
[100,s];

  David Cabestany replied 9 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  March 27, 2017 at 5:44 pm

  Obvious question–is layer(2) 3D?

  Dan
• 

  David Cabestany

  March 27, 2017 at 6:34 pm

  The layer with the expression is 2D, the other is 3D, I just noticed that, thanks. However I turned both layers into 3D and it didn’t work either.

  The new error I’m getting is ctrl.valueAtTime is not a function.
• 

  Dan Ebberts

  March 27, 2017 at 6:49 pm

  You have to do the array indexing after valueAtTime(), so it would be like this:

  .
  ctrl=C.layer(2).transform.orientation;
  .
  .
  .
  x=ctrl.valueAtTime(time+L.startTime)[0];
  .
  .

  Dan
• 

  David Cabestany

  March 27, 2017 at 6:55 pm

  I could swear I have used it with the array before the function.
  As always you are right. Thanks a lot for your invaluable help.

  Best,David.

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