How to Bezier Path with no keyframes ?

[Oleg Pirogov]

Since CC 18 you can directly access path nodes and their tangents in a manner like this:

comp(“Comp”).layer(“Shape Layer”).content(“Shape”).content(“Path”).path.points()[i] = [666, 666]
comp(“Comp”).layer(“Shape Layer”).content(“Shape”).content(“Path”).path.inTangents()[i] = [1, 0]
comp(“Comp”).layer(“Shape Layer”).content(“Shape”).content(“Path”).path.outTangents()[i] = [0,1]

Those “linear” nodes of yours are nodes with no tangent handles i.e. with In Tangent and Out Tangent both equal [0,0]. Changing those to something different than [0,0] will give you a Bezier curve.

Hope this helps you one way or another.

[Shai Benshoshan]

Thank you Oleg <:]

I’ll try that ;
So ill need to know what is the next point is to figure out the direction and value of those tangents.
Since the path is created automatically

tnx
Shai

[Oleg Pirogov]

I’ve written a script which does the thing for every selected property of shape type (i.e. select the shape path and run the script):

//the script smooths (sets interpolation to Auto Bezier) selected shape properties

//smooths a shape path
function shapeSmoother(shape){
//create dummy composition and a text layer in it
var comp = app.project.items.addComp("Dummy", 100, 100, 1, 1, 1);
var pos = comp.layers.addText().transform.position;

//create key frames in null position for every shape vertex
var newKey;
for (var i=0; i