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random comp positioning
I saw the tutorial by Rob Birnholz about using particular to make a photo montage, and I thought it would be kinda cool to have a script that did this:
Took all of the layers in the comp and randomly shuffled their position on the timeline.
Provided the user trimmed the layers (can you have it trim the layers to one frame as well?)they would have Sequence Layers keyframe assistant applied, not overlapped.
Mostly I care about the random shuffle, so the others aren’t all that important. Thanks for any help!
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DO you mean randomly shuffle their order in the index of layers, or randomly offset their start-point ?
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Randomly position the index of the layers. Although randomly arranging the start point of a bunch of one frame layers would be kinda cool too. 🙂
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This should shuffle the order of the layers in the layer stack:
var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
if (myComp && myComp instanceof CompItem){
var myLayers = app.project.activeItem.layers;
var layerOrder = [];
for (var i = 0; i < myLayers.length; i++){ layerOrder[i] = i+1; } var idx, temp; for (var i = 0; i < layerOrder.length; i++){ idx = i + Math.floor(Math.random()*(layerOrder.length - i)); temp = layerOrder[i]; layerOrder[i] = layerOrder[idx]; layerOrder[idx] = temp; } for (var i = 0; i < layerOrder.length; i++){ myComp.layers[layerOrder[i]].moveToBeginning(); } }else{ alert("No comp selected!"); } If you don' like the result, just run the script again. Dan -
Thanks a bunch, works like a charm!
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Here are some other scripts:
https://aescripts.com/layer-random-shifter/
and
https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_KindaSorta
this has several soprting modes amongst them is random
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