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Using Expressions – how to check if a layer is selected
I have these psd icons for an animated rig. I want the users to click these icons for different portions of the body (make it user friendly), but when they click on these icons, I want to make them 30% opaque so that the animators can see what is below (the rig).
I noticed there is no ‘isSelected’ boolean statement in Expressions so there’s no way to see if the layer is selected, only ‘active’ but that doesn’t help.
Is there a possibility to change the opacity on movement? such as this…
temp = thisLayer.position;
if(temp – this.position == [0,0])
{
transform.opacity = 30;}
else
{
transform.opacity = 90;
}I have this expression in the opacity transformation of the icon layer, but it doesn’t work.
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3 Replies
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I’ve refined it, but it’s still not logically correct because it just keeps updating temp and temp2, thus it will always be the ‘else’ statement because they’re both equal to each other. What I’m trying to do here logically is when the user moves the icon, the temp and temp2 variables will remain initial where at if statement, it will check its current position on that frame and compare it to the temp/temp2. If they’re different, that means it moved and if it moved, it has to go transparent.
temp = thisLayer.position[0];
temp2 = thisLayer.position[1];if(temp[0] != transform.position[0] && temp2[0] != transform.position[1])
{
transform.opacity = 30;
}else
{
transform.opacity = 90;}
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I’m 99.9% sure that there is no way to do what you’re describing with expressions.
Darby Edelen
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If that’s the case, can it be done using the extendedScript editor? I’m still trying the other method, I’m getting close but there still isn’t any kind of progress.
if I do the extendedScript option, will it not work anyway since it has to deal with layers? I mean, I’ve never used extendedScript before, but I’m well versed in programming in general as a computer scientist.
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