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AE recursive check through layers
Hi everyone,
I’m looking for a recursive expression that would go through layers and return the index of the first layer with a specific name.
The exact idea for the expression would be to find the first layer above the expression layer, with the name “column”. Then to return its index.
Thx
replied 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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This should work(if no “column” layer is found, it will return 0):
idx = index;
layerIdx = 0;
while (idx >=1 && layerIdx == 0){
if(thisComp.layer(idx).name == "column") layerIdx = idx;
idx--;
}
layerIdx
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It works like a charm !
Thanks a lot Andrei
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Thank you for solving this, Andrei!
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