Thank you Vasyl,

That is exactly what I was looking for.

I dont think I need it to be there between the lines. I can create a rectangle that will follow the text size. I just want to find out if there is a way to make it round when it intersects the alpha mask.

Thank you for your insight

Hi all.

I have a problem in using a text layer as a mask for a shape layer that should be “Shy” to the text, as in it should not touch it. I succeeded doing this by duplicating the layer, adding a stroke to the duplicate, and using that as a mask for the line.

The problem I am facing is that I would like the line to end rounded, because now it is…

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Here is a solution that I think works for no overlapping of segments.

You can modify segmentLenght and segmentNumber to what you need. You can also linke these to slider controllers for changing then easier.

var segmentLength = 10;
var segmentNumber = 100;
seedRandom(index, 1);
var lastIndex = 0;
Array.prototype.customIndexOf = function (element) {
  for…

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I think a path without crossroads is actually easier to make than one without overlapping.

For your final purpose, do you need one without crossroads? Or maybe both?

Should the segments touch the path? Can you, for example, have a cross-roads made up with this segments?
If yes, you will have cases where the segments would go inside a dead end.

LE.
I don’t think they will overlap if we do not allow overlap. I will give this some thought and come back with the result.

Hi John,

Thanks a lot for the response. This is perfect. It looks a lot cleaner and it seems to take 10ms less per frame to render.

I have only used the blur and level effects, since I use this as alpha, and don’t really care for inside colors.

Thanks again for your response,

Andrei

Hi community, I need some help with a task of mine…

I want to create some alpha masks from a text layer, to use with a duplicate of the said layer. I need every row to be a bar with the height dictated by the highest/lowest point in the respective row. I do not really care how big in width this will be, I just need it for some vertical alpha…

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Hi Arie.

I had the same problem with some arabic languages, while using the Noto fonts provided by google.

I had to change the expression because the font was too high, so I subtract half of the font size from the entire height. This still counts badly if the first row consists in only characters with very small height, like “. _ ,”, but I think…

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You should adjust the anchor point expression

t = 0;
l = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime(sourceTime(t), false);
[l.left, l.top + l.height];

Instead of 0, you should give t the value that the time has where your text animation is fully finished. So if your text is fully animated at second 3, t = 3.

Hi Max,

There are quite a few expressions to be used there.
I have done a small template for this, I hope this helps.

r2 is the parent for all the rectangles and its text;

all the texts are parented to their rectangles

all the texts have anchor expression to their center

all the texts must be one index smaller in timeline. You can’t put any layers…

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I see 2 solutions for this problem.

1. Just remove the ‘ character from the group of characters to ignore. (row 5 becomes var punctuation = “,.!?;:”;)

2. I will alter a bit the expression to ignore punctuation that does not have a space after it. Keep in mind that this will also alter “2.3” for example, and the dot will be highlighted.

function…

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Hi Andy,

I can help as much as time allows me. My personal email is andreipopa191187@gmail.com, you can write me there and we can talk.

Cheers,

Andrei

Sorry for the oversight. We can fix that by subtracting 1 from each value in the index of words (which I did in the .map() function towards the end of the expression), since arrays start at zero, and our word counting at one.
Here is the updated code.

function getCharIndicesFromWordIndices(str, wordIndices) {
  var words = str.split(/s+/);
  var…

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I cant think of a different way but to count the characters instead of words.

So if you want to use this solution, you need to change the “Based on” from “words” to “characters” and use this expression instead.

You can add/remove characters you don’t want to be highlighted in the “punctuation” variable;

function getCharIndicesFromWordIndices(str,…

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This should work(if no “column” layer is found, it will return 0):

idx = index;
layerIdx = 0;
while (idx >=1 && layerIdx == 0){
if(thisComp.layer(idx).name == "column") layerIdx = idx;
idx--;
}
layerIdx

Hi Brayden.

In case you did not solve this yet, try to change your second line to

var {height, width, left, top} = sourceRectAtTime(sourceTime(markerTime));

You have probably moved your layer and the sourceRectAtTime function calculates the time based on your layer time, not the composition time.

You need to add parameters to the function like this:

textWidth=thisComp.layer(“Saturday Night Live host, Timothée Chalamet, rode away with the show on his beloved tiny horse”).sourceRectAtTime(time, false).width;

Also, sourceRectAtTime does not count for scale, so your final expression may look like this

textWidth=thisComp.layer(“Saturday Night…

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I managed to pull this off.

I did 4 animators, for each direction. one positive value, one negative etc.

I have set the shape to all to Ramp Down and I have put keyframes on Offset from -100 to +100. Each Offset -100 keyframe was positioned on the +100 keyframe from the previous one.

Hi guys.

I really need to replicate this text animation, and using multiple layers is not an option.
I tried using a text animator based on position with various offset values and shapes (from the advanced selector submenu) but to no avail. All the animations either don’t come back to the starting position, or are stiff and the animation happens on…

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The error is actually a typo I did in the for loop. So the script runs until it finds an error 😀

The for condition should be this one

for (var i = 1; i <= comp.numLayers; i++)

The line 4 gets the composition object corresponding to the composition that is opened in the timeline. We use that in the for, to loop through all its layers.

If you want to…

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Hi.

This should be the logic of your script:

var myFile = File.openDialog("Choose CSV file..");
var arr = csvToArray(myFile);
var columnIndex = 2;
var comp = app.project.activItem;
for (var i = 1; 1 <= comp.numLayers; i++) {
    comp.layer(i).name = arr[i][columnIndex];
}

For this to work, you also need the csvToArray function which parses the CSV. You can…

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Thank you for the answer Dan.

This seems like the optimal solution. If people get to see the comment, they may also be proficient enough in AE to know the should probably not change it.

I need certain information about layers sometimes. To categorize them until now I used label, marker comments and so on. But I was wondering if there is any property on layers where I can save a string that I can evaluate later with a script. If the said property were to be invisible at first glance in AE, that would be even better.

I was wondering…

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If you want to keep the scale constant in comparison with the smallest measure of the comp (width/height), you could use this:

value*Math.min(thisComp.width/1920, thisComp.height/1080)

If you now change your comp to 1920×1920, the image remains the same. I would choose to stick with the smallest of the 2 measurements (width/height) so I am sure that…

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You can’t move markers with expressions, but you can modify your expression so it does not need markers anymore. And it will also be faster to render. Somehting like this to replace the part that you posted should work

startDur = 5;
endDur = 15;
startDur = framesToTime(startDur);
endDur = framesToTime(endDur);
if (numKeys > 0) {
  t = linear(time,…

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I suggest you pass a parameter to your smet function, and don’t use global variables. This changes seem to make your code work:

....
ok.onClick = function () {
    var numSl = parseInt(nSlice.text)
    smet(numSl);
    nW.hide();
}
function smet(numSl) {
...

The rest of the code remains the same

Hi David.

Here is a version that makes the script work correctly as panel.

If you could give me a project in which the error is present, I could try to debug that.

(function (thisObj) {
  var copyLastKeyframe = function (prop) {
    var numKeys = prop.numKeys;
    if (numKeys < 2) {
      alert("There must be at least two keyframes on the selected…

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The closest thing I can think of is essential graphics. Create essential graphics using the comp in which the drop shadow is as main comp. Add the drop shadow distance(and any other property that you want to modify). Where you use the comp as layer, select it and press “u” twice. On essential property distance, put an expression that also includes…

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Well, since you are building this toolkit, I think you have the data for this expression. You need the duration of the in-out animation.

Then apply this to the time-remap property:

inDur = 1;
outDur = 1;
myMarker = marker.key(1);
if (time > myMarker.time - outDur) {
  linear(
    time,
    myMarker.time - outDur,
    myMarker.time,
    key(2).time - inPoint…

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I think you want to give last value and easing to previous key and delete the last key. I made some changes, but did not test them.

var activeComp = app.project.activeItem;
if (activeComp == null || !(activeComp instanceof CompItem)) {
  alert("Please select a composition first.");
} else {
  var selectedLayer = activeComp.selectedLayers[0];
  if…

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I am using the first part of your script and it works fine(Adobe After Effects 2022 and 2023). Text gets to 0.5 and the horizontal scale does not change for the next layer I am creating. Maybe the horizontal scale was set to 0.5 before you ran the script.

However, some error that I see in your code is that you create a text layer with the variable…

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Thanks. I was trying not to use sampleImage() because AFAIK its quite slow, similar to sourceRectAtTime().

Hi guys. I am trying to get the color of a solid via expressions and I am a bit lost.

I have tried

thisComp.layer(index-1).source.mainSource.color
thisComp.layer(index-1).source.color
thisComp.layer(index-1).color

In the documentation I only found properties of general Footage or some JSON properties, but nothing about solids.

In the last line, 10 is how many frames you want per char. 10 chars for 1 seconds in 30 fps would be 3.

Here are 3 functions that should help you out. You can modify the options object (everything that is between {}) to your needs.

var options = {
    fadeToBlackLayerIndex: 2,
    fadeOutSoundLayerIndex: 4,
    duration: 1,
    comp:…

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It’s possible to make the comp length proportionally to the length of a text (I assume you want to count characters). The 2 are also possible, but you need to be more specific. Do you want some layers inside the comp to fade? Or the comp, somewhere where it is used as a layer.

Here is a snippet that modifies the length of the current comp according…

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I think you can use this function.

function setBoxSize(myLayer, boxSize){
    var textProp = myLayer("ADBE Text Properties")("ADBE Text Document");
    var textDoc = textProp;
    textDoc.boxTextSize = boxSize;
    textProp.setValue(textDoc)
}

This applies expressions if properties are selected, precomposes if layers are selected, enables time-remap if a layer that is a comp is selected.

var win = new Window("palette", "My Script UI", undefined);
// Add a button for the  expression
var myButton = win.add("button", undefined, "Button");
// Add an event listener for the button's click…

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Hi Vicenzo.

You can try this.

var win = new Window("palette", "My Script UI", undefined);
// Add a button for the  expression
var myButton = win.add("button", undefined, "Button");
// Add an event listener for the button's click event
myButton.onClick = function() {
  // Get the active composition
  var comp = app.project.activeItem;
  // Get the selected…

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You also need to pass your text to the style property, something like this:

str = "123" + "r" + "345"
text.sourceText.style.setLeading(105).setFauxBold(1).setText(str)

Hi Paul.

This may be what you need to use. I have successfully used it in the past.

True Comp Duplicator – aescripts + aeplugins – aescripts.com

How would the position property know where to take its values from?

I think this should work

var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var myLayers = myComp.selectedLayers[0];
myParent = myLayers.effect("Parent Me")("Select Parent");
myParent.setValue(3);

Something like

a = []

for(let i =0; i<5; i++) a.push(random());
a.join("n")

Hi Steven. Here is the explanation.

zeroPos is the vertical position where you start your vertical animation.

zeroPos – P is the difference between the starting point and the current point of the other bar.

We add these and we get the position of the second bar relative to the first one.

If the first one was going up, zeroPos – P was positiove, and…

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I think you should add this to the yPosition of the layer “Bottom Line Right Null”

zeroPos = 960;
P = thisComp.layer("Top Line Right Null").transform.yPosition;
zeroPos + zeroPos - P;

I think if you move your solid, you should not put the origin in the vertices part. So maybe Shape.vertices should look like this:

Shape.vertices = [
        - [this.large, 0],
        [this.large, 0],
        [this.large, velen - this.arrowheight],
        [this.large + this.arrowwidth, velen - this.arrowheight],
        [0, velen],
        [-this.large…

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Hi Vincenzo.

You could try this. It works most of the times. It does not work when panel object is selected or if nothing is selected. If a composition is selected in the panel, it opens that comp (this may be a little annoying at times).

Paste this as the last like in your .onClick function.

if (app.project.activeItem) app.project.activeItem.openInViewer();