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  • Is there still no way to control ‘shy’ in an expression?

    Posted by Chris Meadmore on August 20, 2020 at 8:53 am

    A lot of posts suggest not but they’re all quite old now.

    Is there any way to currently shy a layer on/off using expressions? You can control if a layer is active which isn’t a keyframe-able value so why not shy?

    Thanks!

    Filip Vandueren replied 6 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Filip Vandueren

    August 20, 2020 at 2:05 pm

    They can’t, but expressions also can’t control if a layer is active.
    No more than they can change the layer order, the label color, the quality setting,…

    Expressions are by definition only applied to keyframe-able properties.

    Why would you need an expression to shy a layer, it has no effect on the render?

    Scripting can set the .shy property of a layer without a problem though.

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