[Haider Najeeb]

Thanks Michael! it’s a great idea I was thinking about something similar but I thought there is away to put this data in place that not be accessible to the user at all. but it seems this is the only and the best approach to achieve this goal.

Thank you so much for your response.

Haider Najeeb
Art Director and Motion Designer
http://www.htn3d.com

[Haider Najeeb]

worked!! Thank you so much Walter! I really appreciate your help.. I was researching and asking for days and now you solved my dilemma 🙂

Haider Najeeb
Art Director and Motion Designer
http://www.htn3d.com

[Haider Najeeb]

I am working on creating a script that creates editable text that has an auto-expanded banner with a pointer (which is the path I am trying to figure out how to created by script) I have done 80% of this script successfully but I cant figure out how to generate this path by script. this image explains what I am trying to create:

on the left side of the image showing the path that I was talking about and on the right is the path highlighted

Haider Najeeb
Art Director and Motion Designer
http://www.htn3d.com

[Haider Najeeb]

Thank you Dave for your response! I was able to create a shape layer and first group “group1” and added a rectangle, and what I am trying to do now is to add a new group “group2” to the same shape layer “Contents” that I created and add a path container/element to this group “group2” and add three vertex mask to this “path”.

This is how I created first group and added rectangle to it:

var shapeLayer = newComp.layers.addShape(); // adding shape layer
shapeLayer.name = "bannerLayer"; // name the shape layer
var shapeGroup1 = shapeLayer.property("Contents").addProperty("ADBE Vector Group"); / creating a group1
shapeGroup1.name = "Banner"; //name the group1
myRect= shapeGroup1.property("Contents").addProperty("ADBE Vector Shape - Rect"); // adding rectangle to the group1


thanks you for your help