• Adobe After Effects

  What’s wrong with my script to enable layer styles?

  Posted by Xinlai Ni on September 16, 2009 at 10:33 pm

  Hi cows:
  I have a simple script to add a comp to a project, add a layer to the comp, then
  I attempted to add the “Inner Glow” layer style to the layer. But it doesn’t work –
  by doesn’t work I mean when you twirl down the layer properties, no layer styles
  were ever created.
  Basically what I wanted to do is to automate the menu action
  Layers > Layer Styles > Inner Glow.

  I opened the extended toolkit and watched the var values, the layerStyles variable
  has ‘enabled’ set to true, but its ‘selected’ is set to false, however I can’t
  do layerStyles.selected = true because
  “Cannot set selecred with this property because the property or a parent property
  is hidden”.

  Any help will be appreciated.
  Thanks
  {
  app.beginUndoGroup(“Test”);
  var proj = app.project;
  var projItems = proj.items;
  var comp = projItems.addComp(“foo”, 200, 200, 1, 5, 30);
  var layer1 = comp.layers.addSolid([0.5, 0, 0], “solid”, 200, 200, 1);
  var layerStyles = layer1.property(“Layer Styles”);
  var innerGlow = layerStyles.property(“Inner Glow”);
  alert(innerGlow.enabled);
  app.endUndoGroup();
  }

  Xinlai Ni replied 16 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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