[Dan Ebberts]

By the way, if you were willing to ease into plugin development, creating a plugin that just provides effect controls (no image processing) is a relatively simple way to start.

[Dan Ebberts]

I don’t believe there’s any way to do that with a Pseudo Effect. Plugins have access to the whole API, but Pseudo Effects have very limited control over the UI.

[Dan Ebberts]

You didn’t really give enough info to provide a definitive answer, but as an example, this position expression for your shape layer will center it (assumes anchor point is in the center of the layer) in the x direction on the center of the text layer, leaving the y position as-is:

L = thisComp.layer("Text");
r = L.sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
x = L.toComp([r.left + r.width/2,r.top + r.height/2])[0];
[x,value[1]]

[Dan Ebberts]

Maybe like this:

val = value;
if (thisComp.layer("titlu 2").active) val += [0,-50];
if (thisComp.layer("titlu 3").active) val += [100,-200];
val

[Dan Ebberts]

You have Advanced 3D selected as your 3D Renderer. If you switch your comp setting to Classic 3D, you’ll be able to turn on Enable Depth of Field.

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m not sure what the issue is–I just ran a little test, and this worked for me:

var transformEffect = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).property("ADBE Effect Parade").property("ADBE Geometry2");
transformEffect.property("ADBE Geometry2-0002").expression = "value";

[Dan Ebberts]

You could modify the Torso_line path expression so that it looks at the layer in the main comp instead of the local one, like this:

var controlLayers = [thisComp.layer("C1Torso_line Path 1 : 1"),thisComp.layer("C1Torso_line Path 1 : 2"),comp("MAIN").layer("C1Torso_line Path 1 : 3")]; 
var origPath = thisProperty; 
var origPoints = origPath.points(); 
var origInTang = origPath.inTangents(); 
var origOutTang = origPath.outTangents(); 
var control; 
for (var i = 0; i < controlLayers.length; i++){ 
  control = controlLayers[i]; 
  origPoints[i] = fromComp(control.toComp(control.anchorPoint));  
} 
createPath(origPoints,origInTang,origOutTang,origPath.isClosed());

but I don’t think that’s going to give you what you want. It seems like it would be simpler to just tie the local “C1Torso_line Path 1 : 3” layer to the one in the MAIN comp with a position expression like this:

comp("MAIN").layer(name).position

[Dan Ebberts]

Without seeing it, I’m guessing it would be something like this (totally untested, so there might be typos):

target1 = thisComp.layer("Target 1");
target2 = thisComp.layer("Target 2");
maxSize= 1000;
minSize = 1;
dist1 = Math.floor( length(position, target1.position) );
range1 = target1.effect("range")("Slider");
sensitivity1 = target1.effect("sensitivity")("Slider"); 
scle1 = linear(dist1, range1, sensitivity1, maxSize, minSize);
dist2 = Math.floor( length(position, target2.position) );
range2 = taarget2.effect("range")("Slider");
sensitivity2 = target2.effect("sensitivity")("Slider"); 
scle2 = linear(dist2, range2, sensitivity2, maxSize, minSize);
scale1/2 + scale2/2

[Dan Ebberts]

So how should the two target values interact? I mean, what’s the formula?

[Dan Ebberts]

This should work:

txt = effect("Slider Control")("Slider") + " dollarez";
if (effect("Slider Control")("Slider") > 999) {
 style.setText(txt).setTracking(180, 0, 1)
}else{
  style.setText(txt).setTracking(0);
}