• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  How to get the layer with the biggest width in an a group of layers

  Posted by Ayoub Gharafi on June 11, 2020 at 12:25 am

  Hey guys basically I have 6 text layers ,

  Line01
  Line02
  Line03
  Line04
  Line05
  Line06

  and I want to get the value of the one with the biggest:

  sourceRectaAtTime().width

  Ayoub Gharafi replied 6 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  June 11, 2020 at 12:36 am

  There are a lot of ways to do it–this is one:

  
names = ["Line01","Line02","Line03","Line04","Line05","Line06"];
w = 0;
for (i = 0; i < names.length; i++){
w = Math.max(w,thisComp.layer(names[i]).sourceRectAtTime(time,false).width);
}
w


  Dan
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  Ayoub Gharafi

  June 11, 2020 at 12:16 pm

  Thanks man , That will do it ,Do you have an online course or something I am ready to pay for it , thanks again

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