• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Lock position of layer to text length

  Posted by Taso Mastorakis on January 19, 2018 at 4:13 pm

  Hey everyone, I’m sort of a novice with expressions and I found this one from Dan that almost does what I need it to:

  gap = 10;
  L = thisComp.layer(“text”);
  rect = L.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
  x = L.toComp([rect.left+rect.width,0])[0];
  [x+gap+width/2,value[1]]

  It works great if the text layer is left justified moving to the right. Just wondering how I can reverse this to be right justified and have the secondary layer move to the left. I’ve tried switching a number of the attributes but nothing seems to work. Thanks in advance.

  Taso Mastorakis replied 8 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Taso Mastorakis

  January 19, 2018 at 9:01 pm

  This was answered, thanks.

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