Thank you for this!

If you take a look at the example gif he made, you’ll find his settings visible for the particle system II plugin.

So I’m trying to add an expression where only the X scale value will wiggle, but I get an error.

[wiggle(10,5), value[1]]

The only way I was able to solve this was to add an expression slider, and tie the scale X to the slider, with the wiggle applied to the slider.

[effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”), value[1]]

Is this the only way to do it? I’m…

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Here’s super rough example, like under the lil robot character, he has a lil thruster, and I just wanted to do a simple animation loop like this. But as he moves, I wanted the circles to fall off in place and not follow the robot where ever it goes, but I think using the method you showed me will work just fine, with some tweaking. This GIF is too…

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I think I’m okay. Because that project hasn’t started yet, and I was experimenting on how I can execute it, so I have time to experiment what you showed me. HOwever I did manage to learn what you gave me and applied it to an intro on a project I’m currently working on now. And it looks awesome! There’s some polish and corrections needed, but this…

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Ah thank you for this. Not quite what I had in mind, but it’s definitely closer than what I had. I’ll play with those settings, thank you again!

Hi, thank you for taking the time to read this.

So what I’m trying to do is make a floating character, but under it I want to have a repeating animation where a circle/halo starts off big and as it falls downward, it’ll scale to zero. Like a retro cartoon tail pipe.

I tried playing around with all three particles: Particle System II, Playground and…

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Oh wow! Thank you! Ya I figured that there are tools out there that already do what I’m doing lol.

Thank you for this! Much helpful.

So I’m trying to learn and teach myself ExtendScript for After Effects, and I learned how to kinda reverse engineer a layer and dial down its properties to get the property name and its Adobe Match Name. I was able to create a for loop to do this, but it only does the first “column” of properties.

What I want: I want to be able to create a script…

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Okay, so I’m figuring out that vector paths dont’ have relative coordinates to the comp, but they do have cooridnate though. So unless there’s a method to create a shape over the existing center shape path, I was thinking maybe have all the groups into one parent group and the coordinates of that and move the new shape there? Is that possible? If…

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Hi All.

I’m making this script where it takes an existing custom shape layer, add’s a poly star to it with stroke and fill. It works, but it adds the poly star somewhere off to the far right, instead of on top (same position) as the existing custom shape (see screenshshot, the T-Rex is the existing shape, and the polystar shape was added, but to…

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So I’m just starting out with ExtendScript to hopefully build tools for myself and team. I’m on Big Sur OS X, but noticed that Adobe ExtendScript cannot run, due to it being 32bit, and Adobe doesn’t have anything for it except a Microsoft VisualCode plugin.

I’ve already gotten some other plugins working like Types-For-Adobe, but the issue I’m…

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Hello,

Really tried searching for this, but can’t seem to find the answer. I have the latest ExtendScript by Adobe with a clean install of MS VisualCode. I have the latest After Effects installed, and I’m running on OS X Big Sur.

Problem: I can’t select After Effects as the target. The option is not available. Any advice?

OOOH wait, nevermind, it was my mistake. I didn’t specify 0, I had it start start at 1 in the replace function. ALL GOOD! THANKS!

Oh that’s weird…so how do I get it to output 10?

Hello, y’all!

So I’m dabbing into expressions, and I’ve played with JS before, but I’m no expert and I don’t know how to identify this weirdness and can use some fresh new eyes.

So I have this expression in a shape layer for the Size, Rotation and Stroke, and a Null with expression control sliders.

I designed the expression that if I duplicate the…

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