Adding a checkbox if inside an already big if else loop.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Does removing “.value” from the last line do anything?

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Dimitris St]

Hello there and thanks for the reply !

No removing the .value doesnt seem to do anything it still crashes.
The position of the if addweight seems to be wrong as well in the example but its just an example as i said i tried it in any other position past and after any collumns but still no luck. cant get this to actually work.

try{
characterN=comp("Master Panel").layer("Select Character").text.sourceText;
AddWeight = comp("Master Panel").layer("charString").effect("Add Weight")("Checkbox");
if (characterN>0 ){
if (characterN<10) charString="Character " +"00"+ characterN.toString();
if (characterN>9 && characterN<100) charString="Character " +"0"+ characterN.toString();
if (characterN>99 && characterN<1000) charString="Character"+ characterN.toString();
if(AddWeight)0 else 100;
}
else res;
}
catch(err){res};


[Alex Printz]

It’s hard to tell what would serve you best from your description.

How are your 2nd set of bodies stacked up (the heavier ones)? If you are going to have a 2nd set of frames with larger bodies for all of the characters and you simply time-remap for various assets, simply offset their values by a number larger than your total assets (in this case I have added 500, change that number for as many as you would need).

so in my example, if they are regular, character 145 would have a body frame 145, but if they were fat, they would be 645, etc.

HOWEVER,
If you were referencing specific layers, do a label check instead, and call the 2nd set “heavy_character”, then just have a 2nd set of body layers, rather than time remapping, to draw from.

Simply un-comment one of the test examples and see what you’d prefer. When you decide one, add another check for the color as well.

-Alex

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try{
offsetWeight = 500; //offsets the time reference layer;
label = "character ";

characterN=comp("Master Panel").layer("Select Character").text.sourceText;
AddWeight = comp("Master Panel").layer("charString").effect("Add Weight")("Checkbox");

if (characterN > 0 ){
charString = characterN.toString();
while ( charString.length < 3) charString = "0" + charString;

//THIS ONE CHANGES THE CHARACTER FRAME REFERENCE
//if (AddWeight == 1) charString = parseInt(charString) + offsetWeight;

//THIS ONE CHANGES THE CHARACTER LABEL USED IN LAYER REFERENCING
//if (AddWeight == 1) label = "heavy_character ";

charString = label + charString;
state=comp("Master Panel").layer(charString).effect("Outfit")("ADBE Slider Control-0001");
framesToTime(state);
}else{res};
}catch(err){res};

[Dimitris St]

Hey there alex and thanks for that awesome reply,
Though indeed you cant understand much of whats happening in my comps with what i said so id try to explain it better.

Think is i have a Character 001 with many slider controls and color controls that actually choose frames of clothes etc.
So when slider control outfit is on 1 the outfit is for example a doctor one.
but i also have layers enabling body parts as hands feet etc so the heavier ones are another layer that contains all the heavy parts.
Thing is when addweight is ticked the normal parts get an opacity of 0 and the heavy ones an opacity of 100.
Which parts are to appear are controlled by the outfit slider already so no need to change that just the opacity thingie.

The whole characterN loop only serves to choose which character we are editing in that case Character 001 or 002 or 003 etc which are all duplicates of Character 001 with different slider values.

So the offset wont really work since im not doing anything with it (as far as i get it that is im not really sure)
and the label call wont work either cause the whole heavier parts aint Character calls but layer calls inside a slider.

Ill try to upload some images for better clarification and a better understanding Thanks for all the effort though.

Character Slider controls etc.

Character Part comps

Clothes etc comps.

[Alex Printz]

Ok, If I’m understanding correctly, you are time-remapping asset layers in your subcomp “Character Parts” to choose the shape, and you have separate asset layers to hold the fat and regular shapes.

Something like this should work in the opacity code for the fat asset opacity:
try{
characterN=comp("Master Panel").layer("Select Character").text.sourceText;
if (characterN > 0 ){
charString = characterN.toString();
while ( charString.length < 3) charString = "0" + charString;
charString = "Character " + charString;
comp("Master Panel").layer(charString).effect("Add Weight")("Checkbox") == 1 ? 100 : 0;
}else 0;
}catch(err){50};

and something like this in the regular asset opacity:

try{
characterN=comp("Master Panel").layer("Select Character").text.sourceText;
if (characterN > 0 ){
charString = characterN.toString();
while ( charString.length < 3) charString = "0" + charString;
charString = "Character " + charString;
comp("Master Panel").layer(charString).effect("Add Weight")("Checkbox") == 1 ? 0 : 100;
}else 0;
}catch(err){50};

note that the only difference is the final line inside the If statement is that if the checkbox is checked, the outputs for the layers swaps 100/0 to 0/100.