• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Adding Shapes with ExtendScript

  Posted by Ronan De lacy on January 21, 2021 at 12:49 pm

  Hello,

  I’m trying to add a a path with a stroke housed in a group. I can create the group and the path inside it, however when I try to add a stroke to the group everything breaks. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I’ve been looking at this for hours and can’t figure out where I’m going wrong.

  Any help greatly appreciated.

  Many thanks!

  var addLayer = app.project.item(5).layers;
  var addGrid = addLayer.addShape();
  addGrid.label = (13);
  addGrid.name = ("headline-text-grid");
  var group = addGrid.content.addProperty("ADBE Vector Group"); 
  group.name = "P1"; 
  var myShapeGroup = group.content.addProperty("ADBE Vector Shape - Group");
  myShapeGroup.addProperty("ADBE Vector Graphic - Stroke");//This line breaks everything 
  var myShape = new Shape();
  myShape.vertices = [[-compWidth/2,-compHeight/2],[compWidth/2,-compHeight/2]];
  myShape.closed = false;
  // set the value of the path too the shape object
  myShapeGroup.property("ADBE Vector Shape").setValue(myShape);

  Ronan De lacy replied 5 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Ronan De lacy

  January 21, 2021 at 1:10 pm

  Crisis averted. I moved the add stroke to the bottom of the stack and placed it within it’s own variable. See below for fix

  var addLayer = app.project.item(5).layers;
  //Add Headline Grid
  var addGrid = addLayer.addShape();
  addGrid.label = (13);
  addGrid.name = ("headline-text-grid");
  var group = addGrid.content.addProperty("ADBE Vector Group"); 
  group.name = "P1"; 
  var myShapeGroup = group.content.addProperty("ADBE Vector Shape - Group");
  var myShape = new Shape();
  myShape.vertices = [[-compWidth/2,-compHeight/2],[compWidth/2,-compHeight/2]];
  myShape.closed = false;
  // set the value of th path too the shape object
  myShapeGroup.property("ADBE Vector Shape").setValue(myShape);
  var stroke = group.content.addProperty("ADBE Vector Graphic - Stroke"); // add a stroke

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