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Use a COMP as a fuction
I’m not sure After Effects can do this but I thought I’d try.
I love expressions and I use them for everything. However, coming from a C++ background two decades ago, I loved creating functions such as “draw a box using width and height” from the line of code. As an example it would be something like : drawBox(50×10); drawBox(100×100);
Can you do this with COMPS? I have a 7 layer COMP that is a byline with moveable properties. Rather than copy all 7 layers every time I want to use it, why not just nest it and use a comp that’s a fuction?
Is that even possible?
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I’m not sure I understand what you mean exactly, but one thing that’s important to remember is that you can’t use expressions to cause different layer instances of the same precomp to render differently.
Dan
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but one thing that’s important to remember is that you can’t use expressions to cause different layer instances of the same precomp to render differently
I think this answers my question. I was just trying to avoid copying the same 7 layers over and over to draw a box with text etc.
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