• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Select all guide layers from active comp without selecting the layers in AE scripting

  Posted by Luqman Ameer on February 16, 2020 at 4:34 am

  Hi, i have an active comp "compname" and have more than 130 layer of different types 'guide, 3d, label red' how can i select it from all layers only guide or 3d or label red.
  Please tell me each type separately

  Thanks.

  Luqman Ameer replied 6 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  February 16, 2020 at 3:30 pm

  This should work:

  
var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
for (var i = 1; i <= myComp.numLayers; i++){
myComp.layer(i).selected = (myComp.layer(i).threeDLayer || myComp.layer(i).guideLayer || myComp.layer(i).label == 1);
}


  Dan
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  Luqman Ameer

  February 17, 2020 at 4:51 am

  Thanks it works perfectly what i need.
  The platform creativecow is amazing.

  I have some other issue, i want to move timeline indicator to 150 frames forward from current time, how can i trigger this via script.
  Thanks.

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