• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Find selected Layers with part of name.

  Posted by Fabian Brugger on February 6, 2023 at 10:29 am

  Is it possible to get to all selected layers that have, for example, the name scale in its name.

  So the layer would be called something like: Frame1_Icon1_Scale

  And i want to find all layers with the ending Scale or with Scale in its name anywhere (whatever is possible) to animate it through a script.

  I write this but it just finds the exact name:

  var comp = app.project.activeItem;

  var layers = comp.selectedLayers;

  for (var i = 0; i < layers.length; i++) {

  if (layers[i].name = “scale”) {

  var scalelayerkeys = layers[i].property(“Transform”).property(“Scale”)

  scalelayerkeys.setValueAtTime(0,[0,0]);

  scalelayerkeys.setValueAtTime(0.4,[110,110]);

  scalelayerkeys.setValueAtTime(0.7,[100,100]);

  }

  }

  Fabian Brugger replied 3 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Filip Vandueren

  February 6, 2023 at 1:28 pm

  try:

  if (layers[i].name.indexOf("scale")>-1) {

  or for case insensitive matching:

  if (layers[i].name.match(/scale/gi)!==null) {
• 

  Fabian Brugger

  February 6, 2023 at 1:45 pm

  The .indexOf version does exactly what i want.

  But will use the one with case insensitive matching so it has less possibilities for errors

  Thank you!

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