• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Target content fill without using e.g. “content(“Rectangle 1”).content(“Fill 1″).color”?

  Posted by Lenny Mason on December 1, 2019 at 11:06 pm

  Hi,

  I posted another question that is related to this subject today, but I felt like this question needed a seperate post. I’m working on a ‘script’ to add grain to objects. So far I’ve write the following expression:

  
if (effect("Lenny's Grain")("Shadow - Custom?") == 0 ? 100 : 0) {
c = effect("Lenny's Grain")("Fill");
hsl = rgbToHsl(c);
factor = effect("Lenny's Grain")("Shadow - Lightness") / 55;
newL = Math.min(hsl[2]*factor,1);
hslToRgb([hsl[0],hsl[1],newL,hsl[3]])
} else {
effect("Lenny's Grain")("Shadow - Color")
}


  So, the shadow color is linked to a checkbox. If you turn the checkbox on, you can pick your own color. If you turn the checkbox off, the color will be adjusted to the fill color of a Color Overlay effect. This works fine, but I’d rather NOT use a color overlay. I’d rather make the color adjust to the original fill color of the layer, so the fill color that belongs to its content.

  Obviously, I could change the code to:

  c = content("Rectangle 1").content("Fill 1").color

  But, that would mean that the shape has to be a rectangle. Is there another way to target the contents’ Fill color?

  Andrei Popa replied 6 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Andrei Popa

  December 3, 2019 at 8:10 am

  If you want to use your new line for any shape(not just a rectangle), just use and index instead of the name. Something like:

  
c = content(1).content("Fill 1").color


  If you want to find out exactly what index that is, I suggest installing “GimmePropPath” script form redefinery.com. Actually, if you want to continue doing scripting, you should definitely install that script.
  Here’s a link for a collection that contains GimmePropPath and a bunch of other really cool scripts.
  https://www.redefinery.com/ae/rd_scripts/

  Andrei
  My Envato portfolio.

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