Expression language to say “any layer”

[Dan Ebberts]

Not directly. You can loop through all the layers though, which might give you what you’re after. What are you trying to do?

Dan

[Jetcityj]

well I am trying to write this in expression langauge:

if any layer’s scale is greater than 100
then move left if, any layer on the right is larger,
if not, then move right if any layer on the left is larger

[Dan Ebberts]

It might look something like this:

v = value;
for (i = 1; i <= thisComp.numLayers; i++){
  if (i == index) continue;
  if (thisComp.layer(i).scale[0] > 100){
    d = (thisComp.layer(i).scale[0] - 100) * thisComp.layer(i).width / 200;
    if (thisComp.layer(i).position[0] > position[0]){
      v -= [d,0];
    }else{
      v += [d,0];
    }
  }
}
v

Dan

[Jetcityj]

woah! thanks, this might take me a while to decipher, thanks for getting me started.