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Measuring hierarchical (nested) distance between comps?
Let’s say I have a comp called conform, which holds a series of precomposed comps 10 deep. Is there a way to return the hierarchical distance between each of those comps and conform?
ie. this hierarcy
conform -> comp1 -> comp2 -> comp3 -> comp4
where comp1 would return “1”, comp2 “2”, and so on.
thanks
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3 Replies
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It would be complicated, and it would only work if the expression had a list (array) of all the nested precomp names, it could go into each comp looking for layers matching the other comp names and possibly construct a hierarchy from that. The key constraint is that comps can only be referenced by name, so there’s no mechanism for an expression to find out the name of its comp’s parent comp.
Dan
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Ah I see, thanks Dan for the response. Yea that would be more trouble than it’s worth. I’ll just do it manually.
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You could potentially have a script that you run separately that finds it for you.
I believe that if its a script (not expression), you could use “.parent”
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