Arthur Hakhverdian
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If I understand correctly what you’re going for here, then no. I’m afraid you can not control repeater generated shapes as you’d like to. Through some tricky play with basic transform params you may be able to arrange the array of shapes in certain interesting curvy, or kaleidoscopic formations and whatnot, but that’s about it. The relative transforms in the chain can only be incremental. You can’t, for instance, have things like circle #4 be smaller than circle #5 and then circle#6 also smaller that circle#5, etc.
I hope I’m on the same page.
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Sorry, Dylan but I already hate what you’re trying to do here. ???? Far too many layers to accomplish something that requires at MOST two and maybe even just one. See this here? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e3GLat97akYc_Upgz2ZFnnLJKwP-yPux/
Even if your desired end result slightly differs from what’s in that link, it should probably serve as an example of how stuff like this should REALLY be built.At the very least a good place to start would be to make both the dark grey and the white rectangles sub-elements of ONE shape layer. The parallel reveal of the text, if it’s only to be horizontal, can be accomplished via a properly rigged Linear Wipe effect.
Or, better yet, have a look at what I did and try adopting that. -
I’m trying to think of a work-around here. My initial hope was to identify the specific instance of Auto_Product 02 by the containing bin, but evidently, unlike scripts, expressions are blind to bins.
What else can we do here? Say, is the expression that’s trying to address Auto_Product 02 its (grand)child or is it external to it? Does it at least share hierarchical ancestry with Auto_Product 02?Down the line, if I knew what this whole thing is supposed to serve as a step towards accomplishing, perhaps I could offer a more fundamental solution that bypasses the need for what you’re asking for altogether.
To provide a direct answer to your question, I suppose one could conceivably write a script that would automatically rename the imports.
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Anything that has to do with underlining or highlighting specific parts of a block of text is damn near impossibly tricky in expressions. I’ve struggled with this myself but what I came up with, if you’d even think it anywhere near a viable solution, was so convoluted and ugly that it would put you off even trying.
Unlike, say ActionScript in Flash, After Effects lacks a comprehensive set of text metrics commands, which mean any viable way to perform multi-line or mid-line operations is out the window.Let me know if you’d be interested in me expanding on this.
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The expression applied to the Anchor Point, presumably that of a null, which is essentially a solid of a default size of 100×100, will lock the Anchor Point in the center.
The expression applied to the Position will lock it to the center of the comp.
The expression applied to the scale beats me, but, again, if it’s a 100×100 null, in which case in effect it’s scale would correspond to it’s pixel dimensions, setting it to that of comp height and width will create a solid that is forced to always assume the size of the comp.
I haven’t seen your template, so I venture to make assumptions as to the type of that guide layer.
“Can someone explain why these expressions are applied to the guide layer and why all the layers are parented to it. I have noticed that after parenting the layers, each layer scale value changes to 5.2,9.3%”
Beats me. No idea. Sorry. I’d have to see.
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All right, Matthew, so here’s an updated file, which more or less should do what you were looking for:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SVnFVIVVlsWllyCYivphkVekOopoIZJa/
I set up a controller for you to specify the min/max margin overflow points after editing text. However, there’s an excess/shortage error that I couldn’t resolve because I was unable to figure out what to attribute it to.
Maybe someone else can help with that one.
I’d encourage to dissect the expressioned attributes to see what’s going on.
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Hi, Matthew.
Yes, there is a way to do all of those things, but I’m busy right now. If no one else posts the solution by the time I’m free, I’ll provide you with an updated sample that does all of those things. -
Thank you again for the reply, Dan.
Despite my confidence, I was completely wrong and you were completely right!
I actually emailed Jesse shortly thereafter and he kindly replied:It is just a label element, there is no interactivity from a user perspective. I’m probably going to be updating the name of that control in the future because you are not the first one to ask about that. (…)
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I think what they’re doing is using an empty Group
I’m sure that’s not the case. Watch this: https://aescripts.com/media/catalog/product/p/s/ps-gif-03.gif
This is not (mis)using the Group element as a section label or something. Besides, even an empty Group element would display the expand/collapse triangle icon to its right, no? This is clearly something else. -
Please look into the attached project file to see where that expression was added.