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  Workflow related issue with Slider Control

  Posted by Søren Storm on November 26, 2018 at 11:13 am

  UPDATE: Solved the following, by simply (facepalm) making a null, with multiple sliders, that is never hidden. I simply put it in the top of my layers, so it´s easy to find…

  Hi all
  So I´m animating this fake user interface, and have rigged all my “programs” to sliders in null layers, so that I can easily control if windows or programs are visible or not. Heres the thing:

  Can I somehow get shortcuts to selected slider effects in a UI list? That is – a permanent box in AE, containing all my slider controls? I would like to get more into scripting, but I am unsure if I am able to set a slider value from a button press.

  Right now windows are closed, (scale=0, opacity=0) when my null slider control is 0, and scales to 100, and has opacity 100 when null slider is 100.

  If a plugin exist, I would also be grateful for a point in that direction. I have experimented just a little bit with k-bar, but can’t figure out an expression toggling a slider value.

  optimally something like this:

  if (button toggle):
  thisComp.layer(“Controller_swypoo”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”) = 100;

  if (button untoggle):
  thisComp.layer(“Controller_swypoo”).effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”) = 0;

  Hope it makes sense. ☺

  Best regards from
  Søren

  UPDATE:
  Found this:
  slider.effect(“Slider Control”).property(“Slider”).setValue(100);

  UPDATE 2:
  Seems like it only works in scripts and not expressions?

  Søren Storm replied 7 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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