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Expression to access an item’s precomp?
If I use comp(“ExampleComp”) then if I duplicate that comp then the comps inside it that reference “ExampleComp” will still reference the first comp, not “ExampleComp 2”.
How can I access the composition that my item is inside? There is no function I can find like thisPrecomp or thisParentComp.
Thanks for your help!
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4 Replies
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There’s no way to reference a “parent” comp, except by name.
Dan
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Well damn, Adobe! Thanks Dan.
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It makes sense when you think about the way precomps work. You can’t have a precomp that renders differently in one parent comp than it does in another. If you duplicate the entire chain, you can set your expressions up so that they they use the name of the comp they’re in to reference the parent comp. Say you have Maincomp 1 and Precomp 1. You duplicate those and have Maincomp 2 and Precomp 2. You could have expressions in the precomps that have something like this:
parentComp = comp(“Maincomp” + parseInt(thisComp.name.split(” “)[1],10));
The expressions in the precomp would automatically find the matching parent comp.
Dan
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That’s just the solution I needed! I guess I’m just too used to Object-Oriented programming that I assumed this would be possible in After Effects, but your point makes sense now.
Thanks man!
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