[Andrei Popa]

You can directly set the scale and position to a 2D vector.

This code works:

var a = app.project.item(1).layer("Shape Layer 1")("Transform")("Scale");
var b = app.project.item(1).layer("Shape Layer 1")("Effects")("Point Control")("Point").value;
a.setValue(b);

It works with scale and position of a layer. Doesn’t matter if the 3d it’s turned on or not. The last element of the value is set to zero for position and 100 for scale(the default values).

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[Andrei Popa]

Scale and position are 3d properties. It is only in the After Effects interface that the last is hidden if the layer is not 3d enabled. If you check the scale of a layer by script, you will get [100,100,100].

So, in short, you are doing nothing wrong and the answer of .PropertyValueType is correct. They are just 3d properties, not 2d.

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[Andrei Popa]

Sorry. I corrected this but then pasted the code from the clipboard. That one was not corrected ????

crtComp = app.project.activeItem;

for (var i=1;i<=crtComp.numLayers;i++){
currentLayer = crtComp.layer(i);
if(currentLayer instanceof TextLayer){
crtComp.layer(i).name = crtComp.layer(i).text.sourceText.value;
}
}

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[Andrei Popa]

Try this:

crtComp = app.project.activeItem;

for (var i=1;i<=crtComp.numLayers;i++){
currentLayer = crtComp.layer(i);
if(currentLayer typeof TextLayer){
currentLayer.name = currentLayer.text.sourceText.value;
}
}

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[Andrei Popa]

Script:

crtComp = app.project.activeItem;

for (var i=1;i<=crtComp.numLayers;i++){
crtComp.layer(i).name = crtComp.layer(i).text.sourceText.value;
}

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certainSize = 500;
thisWidth = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).width*scale[1]/100;
(certainSize>thisWidth) ? value : [value[0]*certainSize/thisWidth,value[1]]

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[Andrei Popa]

Try this:

certainSize = 500;
thisWidth = sourceRectAtTime(time,false).width*scale[1]/100;
(certainSize>thisWidth) ? value : value*certainSize/thisWidth

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Your way of doing it is correct. You just misspelled selectedLayers

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[Andrei Popa]

I am not sure if this would work, but maybe something like i = this.index; inside the function. Or if you name your checkboxes Light 1, Light 2 etc, you can use this:
i = parseInt(this.text.split(" ")[1]);

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[Andrei Popa]

Try this


var currentComp = app.project.activeItem;
var myLayer = currentComp.layer(1);
var myLayerPos = myLayer.transform.position.value;
var myLayerRect = myLayer.sourceRectAtTime(0,false);
var null1 = currentComp.layers.addNull();
var null2 = currentComp.layers.addNull();
null1.transform.position.setValue(myLayerPos + [myLayerRect.left, myLayerRect.top+myLayerRect.height]);
null2.transform.position.setValue(myLayerPos + [myLayerRect.left+myLayerRect.width, myLayerRect.top+myLayerRect.height]);


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