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  Copy effect values from another layer through Layer Control

  Posted by Ahad Elshabeb on September 11, 2020 at 12:04 am

  Hi

  Is it possible to access the values of an effect on another layer through a layer control.

  An example would be. Layer 1 and Layer 2 have “Fill” effect.

  I want the Fill color of Layer 1 to take the Fill value of Layer 2 ( any layer with Fill effect that is selected through the layer control)

   

  This line doesn’t work :

  effect(“Layer To Align To”)(“Layer”).effect(“Fill”)(Color)

   

  It works with layer properties like

  effect(“Layer To Align To”)(“Layer”).position

   

  Is it a limitation of Layer control or I typed it wrongly ?

  Ahad Elshabeb replied 5 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Chris Voelz

  September 15, 2020 at 4:27 pm

  This worked fine for me.

  Applied Layer Controller to Layer 1, and set it to Layer 2
  Applied Fill Effect to Layer 1
  Applied this expression on the Fill Color of Layer 1, effect(“Layer Control”)(“Layer”).effect(“Fill”)(“Color”)
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  Ahad Elshabeb

  January 13, 2021 at 4:17 pm

  Thanks Chris. True it works fine the way it is.

  I discovered a space in my code. After 2 weeks of going crazy I noticed the typo !

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