• Adobe After Effects

  Expression: X&Y coordinates

  Posted by Erin Patrick on November 8, 2006 at 9:29 pm

  I want to have a text layer that shows the current X&Y coordinates of another layer as it moves across the screen. So, I made a new text layer, added an expression to the source text property, and pickwhipped the position value of the target layer. It worked fine, but my question is, can I get both the X&Y coordinate at the same time, or do I have to do that on two seperate layers of text? Also, how can I limit the number of decimal placesin the text layers to two or three, because now it’s showing about 13 decimal places.
  Thanks in advance for the help!

  Mark Ekstrand replied 16 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  November 8, 2006 at 9:55 pm

  Something like this:

  p = thisComp.layer(“myLayer”).position;
  “” + Math.round(p[0]*100)/100 + ” ” + Math.round(p[1]*100)/100

  Dan
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  Erin Patrick

  November 8, 2006 at 9:59 pm

  WOW! That was exactly what I needed! One day, I’ll get the hang of expressions, hopefully.
  Thanks again.
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  Mark Ekstrand

  September 2, 2009 at 1:28 am

  how can i get the coordinates from a spreadsheet?

  MarkE

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