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What’s wrong with my script to enable layer styles?
Hi cows:
I have a simple script to add a comp to a project, add a layer to the comp, then
I attempted to add the “Inner Glow” layer style to the layer. But it doesn’t work –
by doesn’t work I mean when you twirl down the layer properties, no layer styles
were ever created.
Basically what I wanted to do is to automate the menu action
Layers > Layer Styles > Inner Glow.I opened the extended toolkit and watched the var values, the layerStyles variable
has ‘enabled’ set to true, but its ‘selected’ is set to false, however I can’t
do layerStyles.selected = true because
“Cannot set selecred with this property because the property or a parent property
is hidden”.Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
{
app.beginUndoGroup(“Test”);
var proj = app.project;
var projItems = proj.items;
var comp = projItems.addComp(“foo”, 200, 200, 1, 5, 30);
var layer1 = comp.layers.addSolid([0.5, 0, 0], “solid”, 200, 200, 1);
var layerStyles = layer1.property(“Layer Styles”);
var innerGlow = layerStyles.property(“Inner Glow”);
alert(innerGlow.enabled);
app.endUndoGroup();
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3 Replies
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You need to add the property first using the PropertyGroup addProperty() method
-Lloyd
app.project.item(index).layer(index).propertyGroupSpec.addProperty(name) -
Although Lloyd’s reply is undoubtably correct, I still don’t understand how to implement “propertyGroupSpec.addProperty(name)”.
I also fail to understand the Scripting Guide’s explanation of PropertyGroup.Although I want to enable ‘Glow’ (as the original poster had wanted), I am assuming the same concepts apply to, for example, setting the type of Light (Spot, Ambient etc) after adding a light using “.addLight”.
I have searched widely for online explanations or scripts, but even terms like “propertyGroupSpec” only lead me back to the scipting guide.
Can anyone point me to a page? Or provide some demonstration code.
Many thanks.
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Hi Tim,
Unfortunately, in its current implementation, you can’t set a light type through scripting. If you’d like to understand more about scripting I am currently teaching a scripting course. You can find out more about it by going to aescripts
-Lloyd
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