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changing a property on every group inside shape layers via scripting?
Hello!
I have 65 shape layers previously converted from text layer, and I need to access every single group’s position to add a wiggle (so basically, every converted letter, which is now a group inside the shape layer). Sometimes instead of wiggling the position, the opacity may need to be set the same value, etc.
As the client keeps giving more and more words which needs to be converted into shape layer, and all that digging into the group’s transform props can take forever, I’m wondering how should a script be to loop through all the groups from the selected layers and add a wiggle (or whatever, I’d change depending on the needs).edit: I don’t know if it’s even possible to batch convert text to shape layer and perform the adding the wiggle?
thanks!!
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4 Replies
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Navigating a shape layer’s hierarchy can be tricky, but here’s a simple example where you have converted a text layer to a shape layer and have the shape layer selected:
var myLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0];
if (myLayer instanceof ShapeLayer){
var myContents = myLayer.property("Contents");
for (var i = 1; i <= myContents.numProperties; i++){
myContents.property(i).property("Transform").property("Position").expression = "wiggle(1,25)";
}
}
Throw in groups and things get more complicated, especially if the script can’t assume the exact contents of the shape layer. Could be a bit of work.
Dan
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thanks!!
I gave a try selecting just 3 shape layers, but the script only works on the first selected layer. I guess that’s due to the tricky nature of the shape layers contents and groups, right?anyway, it will save a lot of time, thanks!!
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I haven’t tested this, but you could do multiple selected layers like this:
var myLayers = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers;
var myLayer;
for (var i = 0; i < myLayers.length; i++){
myLayer = myLayers[i];
if (myLayer instanceof ShapeLayer){
var myContents = myLayer.property("Contents");
for (var j = 1; j <= myContents.numProperties; j++){
myContents.property(j).property("Transform").property("Position").expression = "wiggle(1,25)";
}
}
}
Dan
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yay!! works perfectly, again, thanks!!!
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