• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  link value effect above on same layer

  Posted by Juanluis Vich on June 14, 2020 at 3:28 pm

  hi!

  How it would look like to have access to the effects index on the same layer, to link some effects to the effect above?
  I have a drop shadow effect, and I’d like to duplicate it several times, and always have variatons from the Shadow Color on the effect above. Is that possible?

  Thanks!

  Juanluis Vich replied 5 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  June 14, 2020 at 6:07 pm

  You could try this:

  
p = thisProperty;
idx = p.propertyIndex;
effectIdx = p.propertyGroup(1).propertyIndex;
if (effectIdx != 1)
p.propertyGroup(2)(effectIdx-1)(idx).value
else
value


  If the effect above could possibly be a different effect, you may want to add some defensive code to avoid an expression error (or unexpected result) in that case.

  Dan
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  Juanluis Vich

  June 15, 2020 at 7:02 am

  Awesome, thank you!

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