Creative COW | Sacha Crispin | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/glypsedesigns/activity/ Activity feed for Sacha Crispin. Thu, 14 May 2026 18:17:14 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 4b0995e20007f6d3860352c61e18eab4 Sacha Crispin replied to the discussion layer.applyPreset does not work when executed by a ScriptUI button in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/layer-applypreset-does-not-work-when-executed-by-a-scriptui-button/#post-2443389 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:59:10 +0000 Reply to layer.applyPreset does not work when executed by a ScriptUI button

Someone helped me on another place, so found it!
Big thanks to Adam Plouff (founder of battleaxe.co, answered me on his Discord server).

In his words “The script doesn’t understand relative path notation. So you want to get the path of the script, go up a folder then to the ffx file”

Here’s the working code snippet:

// Apply the effects from the .ffx…

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]]> e68de0fddfa6c167bde1d108edd6ea85 Sacha Crispin started the discussion layer.applyPreset does not work when executed by a ScriptUI button in the forum Adobe After Effects https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/layer-applypreset-does-not-work-when-executed-by-a-scriptui-button/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 17:05:58 +0000 layer.applyPreset does not work when executed by a ScriptUI button

Hey all! I’m facing a really weird issue and can’t fix it on my own.

I wrote (copied snippets from here and there) a ScriptUI Panel for AE that creates a rectangle shape layer of the size of the comp, adds it fill, and applies an external .ffx (Animation Preset) to it. And that works fine (lines 36 to 74 on their own).

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]]> 66d1731a3006db53f15a4d50633438df Sacha Crispin replied to the discussion Is there a expression which can : value + previous value in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/is-there-a-expression-which-can-value-previous-v/#post-2439469 Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:56:36 +0000 Reply to Is there a expression which can : value + previous value

Oh wow thank you so much Dan! Will browse your blog even more now when I’m looking for help from now on. Thank you so much. ❤

]]> f2e3e945d4e0e98f91c6f9c881fd7eb7 Sacha Crispin replied to the discussion Is there a expression which can : value + previous value in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/is-there-a-expression-which-can-value-previous-v/#post-2439384 Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:41:35 +0000 Reply to Is there a expression which can : value + previous value

Hi Kurisuta! I’ve been trying to understand your explanation for 3 days now but can’t make it work. Would you mind sharing a project file or giving ampler explanation please? Thank you!

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