I want to create a text animation using animator, where each character pops-up from 0% scale to 150% and then back to 100%. Attached is my current best attempt. I have to mask out characters because by default they are 100% scale until range is applied to them.

How do I do this without masking?

Also, how to make scale animations overlap, so multiple…

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No, that’s exactly the functionality I’m trying to achieve, just from inside the extension, w/o pressing U.

I’m trying to write an extension that can show/hide properties with keyframes.
The most relevant piece of code goes like this:

var cmdStr = ‘Reveal Properties with Keyframes’;

executeCommand(cmdStr);

function executeCommand(cmdStr) {

var cmdId = 0;

cmdId = app.findMenuCommandId(cmdStr);

if (cmdId == 0) return cmdId;

app.executeCommand(cmdId);

…

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I have an extension the executes this function to show/hide properties with keyframes:

function test() {

var res = false;

var msg = ‘default’;

var comp = _proj.activeItem;

if (!comp || !(comp instanceof CompItem)) {

msg = ‘No active item or active item is not a comp’;

return toJSON(res, msg);

}

var layer = comp.layer(1);

if (!layer) {

msg = ‘No layer…

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I built a panel (comp) that has layers for clear sky, clouds (two tiled copies back to back so I make them infinitely looped), morning and evening sun.

Then I wanted to be able to build a hexagon ring out of these panels in the main comp, and have a null layer (in the main comp) where I control the look and feel of each panel, that is its sky…

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I see, thank you, so how do I “script” this problem properly?
Can I have a layer with manually controlled keyframes that change the speed of a car and have it’s position calculated in a sensible way?

I have a layer with a car, and I have another Null layer with a speed controller that has manually placed keyframes.

I want to control the car position according to those speed keyframes, i.e. accumulate traveled distance. For example, if the spped values on the first 5 frames are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 then positions should be 1, 3, 6, 10, 15.

I… Read more