Getting active layer count at current time

[Dan Ebberts]

Try this:


n = 0;
for (i = 1; i < index; i++)
if (thisComp.layer(i).active)
n++;
n


Dan

[Fletcher Groeneman]

Works perfect. Dan, you are the best!

Many, many thanks.

If you have time, could you walk me through that expression… I would love to understand what is happening so I can modify and re-use it in future work.

– Fletcher Groeneman

[Dan Ebberts]

Fletcher,

The expression just looks at each layer that has a layer index less than its own (which means the other layer is above the layer with the expression in the layer stack) and bumps a counter (n) for each active layer it finds.

Dan

[Fletcher Groeneman]

Thanks Dan.

So let me try and interpret it:

for (incrementally by 1; every layer index smaller than my index)
if (that layer is active)
add 1 to a start value of 0

Correct?

– Fletcher Groeneman

[Dan Ebberts]

That’s it!

[René Pedersen]

Hi

The last couple of days I have been – unsuccessfully – trying to expand this old expression.

The thing is that I don’t want to count active layers, but count all layers that has the term BlueBox in its name.

I remembered an expression I had used before from that uses a keyword (not to get a number, but to set a width) https://ukramedia.com/how-to-automatically-get-the-size-of-many-layers/

keyword = “ukramedia”;

widthList = [];

for(i = 1; i <= thisComp.numLayers; i++) {

layerPath = thisComp.layer(i);

layerWidth = layerPath.sourceRectAtTime().width;

if(layerPath.name.match(keyword)) {widthList.push(layerWidth)} else {};

}

Math.max(…widthList) + 100

But when I try to merge the expressions it doesn’t work. This is what I tried – any idea what am I doing wrong?

n = 0;

keyword = “BlueBox”

for (i = 1; i < index; i++)

layerPath = thisComp.layer(i)

if (layerPath.name.match(keyword))

n++;

[Dan Ebberts]

This should count all layers with BlueBox in the layer name:

n = 0;
keyword = "BlueBox";
for (i = 1; i <= thisComp.numLayers; i++){
  if (thisComp.layer(i).name.indexOf(keyword) > -1) n++;
}
n

[Penelope Harpley]

Hello all,

I’ve been trying to rejig the expressions in this post to work for my needs to no avail. Maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree? My javascript knowledge is minimal.

I’m trying to accumulate the width of multiple layers if they meet a condition.

In basic english:

Look through all layers with an index < current layer. If the opacity == 100, get width of current layer and add to a total.

Thanks in advance!

[Dan Ebberts]

Like this maybe:

total = 0;
for (i = 1; i < index; i++){
  if (thisComp.layer(i).opacity == 100){
    total += thisComp.layer(i).sourceRectAtTime(time,false).width;
  }
}
total

[Penelope Harpley]

Dan, thank you so much this works! You are a legend. I have learned so much from your work with expressions over the years, I can’t thank you enough for your contribution to this forum.