[Christopher R. green]

[crgreen] “, or two layers that are identical in their geometrical properties and are in their default positions and anchor points”

My apologies; this is a misstatement. The main thing is that the layer with the mask should be the size of the comp and have its default geometrics values.
I hope this makes sense.
I’m putting another movie with an animated mask effect example in that directory. It should be there shortly.

-cg

[Christopher R. green]

[crgreen] “, or two layers that are identical in their geometrical properties and are in their default positions and anchor points”

My apologies; this is a misstatement. The main thing is that the layer with the mask should be the size of the comp and have its default geometrics values.
I hope this makes sense.
I’m putting another movie with an animated mask effect example in that directory. It should be there shortly.

-cg

[Christopher R. green]

Well, scamper on over to the directory below and download the script.
Feel free to look at the qt movie in that directory, too, which gives a simple illustration of how the script can be used …

https://www.crgreen.com/vertexscript/

please, GIVE FEEDBACK.

Thanks

[Christopher R. green]

Well, scamper on over to the directory below and download the script.
Feel free to look at the qt movie in that directory, too, which gives a simple illustration of how the script can be used …

https://www.crgreen.com/vertexscript/

please, GIVE FEEDBACK.

Thanks

[Christopher R. green]

Hi.
Before you do a lot of unnecessary work, I might have what you want. It’s been about ready for release, but it only works:
1) with one vertex at a time (but you can do one after another, over and over again if you want)
2) with either one layer (mask and two-dimensional point value selected), or two layers that are identical in their geometrical properties and are in their default positions and anchor points

and it has only been tested on 6.5, on osx.
It’s also a little tricky if you’re not used to selecting specific properties (a friend of mine had a hard time isolating his mask and position selections, and the script needs to see specific selections to work) — and I’ve been trying to think of a way to improve upon the interface scheme (ae7 probably makes it easier).

I’ve been wanting to make it a bit more intelligent, so that at the very least it warns you if your layers are different or if things aren’t where they should be, but it’s non-distructive and undoable and obvious is something is amiss.

Let me know if you want to test it out.

[Christopher R. green]

Hi.
Before you do a lot of unnecessary work, I might have what you want. It’s been about ready for release, but it only works:
1) with one vertex at a time (but you can do one after another, over and over again if you want)
2) with either one layer (mask and two-dimensional point value selected), or two layers that are identical in their geometrical properties and are in their default positions and anchor points

and it has only been tested on 6.5, on osx.
It’s also a little tricky if you’re not used to selecting specific properties (a friend of mine had a hard time isolating his mask and position selections, and the script needs to see specific selections to work) — and I’ve been trying to think of a way to improve upon the interface scheme (ae7 probably makes it easier).

I’ve been wanting to make it a bit more intelligent, so that at the very least it warns you if your layers are different or if things aren’t where they should be, but it’s non-distructive and undoable and obvious is something is amiss.

Let me know if you want to test it out.

[Christopher R. green]

First, when you get this kind of movie (the kind that shows up as a white nothingness), do a command-i in quicktime player to see what compressor is being used. Half the time (these complex calculations are coming from the top of my head) you’ve got a DivX codec for which you can download the decompressor codec at either divx.com or 3ivx.com (which is an alternative that some people prefer). The other half of the time you’ve got something like … just the thought of it makes my skin crawl … and old INDEO codec, which is not and probably never will be available for OSX, infuriatingly. There is an INDEO codec for Mac OS9, though – if you’ve got Classic available to you (it’s even downloadable from the apple site I believe). Probably the only argument for keeping an old OS9 machine available in the corner under the flower pot.
🙂