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How to find the index of a nested comp in it’s parent comp?
I want to create an expression on a layer of a comp, that references the comp’s index inside the parent comp.
Something like
index = comp(“Parent Comp”).thisLayer.index
is there a way?
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3 Replies
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Almost!
index = comp(“Parent Comp”).layer(“Child Comp”).index;
Replace Child Comp with whatever your precomp is named.
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Yeah I knew it could be referenced by name but there are more than 50 instances of the same pre comp so I really wanted a way to have their expressions reference the index of that particular instance of the pre comp inside it’s parent comp.
Is there any other way to get a reference to ‘self’ like in c?
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There’s no way to do that. Otherwise, you could have the same precomp rendering differently in different layer instances, which can’t happen.
Dan
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