Index of thiscomp

[Dan Ebberts]

What do you mean by pre-comp B index? Do you mean the layer index of the pre-comp B layer within precomp A? Something like this:

comp(“precomp A”).layer(thisComp.name).index

Dan

[Alex Printz]

Compositions in and of themselves do not have indexes; they are entirely object orientated based on their name. They only get layer indexes when they are precomps inside another comp.

Dan’s solution seems right, but if you are looking for the inverse of that where Comp B is inside Comp A and has a specific index, you could do the code below.

The strength in this method is you can swap out the compB’s with many different precomps all with different text layers inside each, and your compA will update it’s expression.

i = 3; //comp B's exact layer index inside compA;
comp(thisComp.layer(i).name).layer("text layer 1").text.sourceText;


Alex Printz
Mograph Designer

[Gabriel Silva]

OMG Thanks!! It helped me a lot! You are awesome!