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  Need someone to help me with this converting After Effects Animation to script

  Posted by Pragyan Yadav on January 18, 2023 at 10:14 pm

  This is my animation.

  https://gyazo.com/8e428ba9058516550efdf76e417fd3c3

  Can anyone help please

  Pragyan Yadav replied 3 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
• 4 Replies

• 

  Jace Bradley

  January 19, 2023 at 5:05 am

  What do you mean? Animation to script?
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  Pragyan Yadav

  January 19, 2023 at 9:13 pm

  I have made an animation in after effects, but if my team wants to change something in it, then the efforts we have to go through are much,
  so I wanted to convert this animation to Extend Script (AE script) so I just change the variables, and run it and get whatever variant of this animation my team wanted.
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  Dan Ebberts

  January 19, 2023 at 10:33 pm

  In theory you could probably do that. You’d have to document all the steps you used to create the animation and covert that to script code. The script would also need a UI where your team could enter new values to modify the animation. Depending on how much work went into setting it up in the first place, this could turn out to be a significant effort.
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  Pragyan Yadav

  January 20, 2023 at 12:08 am

  Hi

  So I was able to write the script but issue I am facing is with the inner circle animation
  This circle only comes as 3/4, i am not sure why

  this is my code for that

  // MAKE INNER CIRCLE
  // Create a new shape layer
  var shapeLayer = comp.layers.addShape();
  shapeLayer.enabled = true;
  // Add an elliptical path (Ellipse A) to the shape layer
  var ellipseAPath = shapeLayer.property("ADBE Root Vectors Group").addProperty("ADBE Vector Shape - Ellipse");
  ellipseAPath.property("ADBE Vector Ellipse Size").setValue([572, 572]);
  ellipseAPath.property("ADBE Vector Ellipse Position").setValue([0, 0]);
  // Add a trim path to Ellipse A
  var trimPathA = shapeLayer.property("ADBE Root Vectors Group").addProperty("ADBE Vector Filter - Trim");
  // Set the trim path start value to 0 (12 o'clock position)
  trimPathA.property("ADBE Vector Trim Start").setValue(50);
  trimPathA.property("ADBE Vector Trim End").setValue(100);
  // Apply the expression to the start value
  trimPathA.property("ADBE Vector Trim Start").expression = "linear(time,4.11,10,50,100)";
  // Add an elliptical path (Ellipse A) to the shape layer
  var ellipseBPath = shapeLayer.property("ADBE Root Vectors Group").addProperty("ADBE Vector Shape - Ellipse");
  ellipseBPath.property("ADBE Vector Ellipse Size").setValue([572, 572]);
  ellipseBPath.property("ADBE Vector Ellipse Position").setValue([0, 0]);
  // Add a trim path to Ellipse A
  var trimPathB = shapeLayer.property("ADBE Root Vectors Group").addProperty("ADBE Vector Filter - Trim");
  // Set the trim path start value to 0 (12 o'clock position)
  trimPathB.property("ADBE Vector Trim Start").setValue(0);
  trimPathB.property("ADBE Vector Trim End").setValue(50);
  // Apply the expression to the start value
  trimPathB.property("ADBE Vector Trim Start").expression = "linear(time,7.05,10,0,50)";
  // Add a stroke to Ellipse A
  var stroke = shapeLayer.property("ADBE Root Vectors Group").addProperty("ADBE Vector Graphic - Stroke");
  stroke.property("ADBE Vector Stroke Width").setValue(10);
  stroke.property("ADBE Vector Stroke Color").setValue([0, 0, 1]);

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