[Jakob Wagner]

You’re welcome. 🙂

[Jakob Wagner]

Hi Brian

Try this:

layerIndex = (index-1);

xPos = thisComp.layer("expression").effect("location")("Point")[0];
yPos = thisComp.layer("expression").effect("location")("Point")[1];

spacing = thisComp.layer("expression").effect("spacing")("Slider");
groupSpacing = thisComp.layer("expression").effect("group spacing")("Slider");
groupSize = thisComp.layer("expression").effect("group size")("Slider");

layerSpacing = Math.floor(layerIndex/groupSize)*groupSpacing + layerIndex*spacing;

[xPos+layerSpacing, yPos];

I have added a couple more sliders. If you want you can simply set groupSize to 3, but I thought it was fun to have it as a slider.

All the best
Jakob Wagner

[Jakob Wagner]

COOL! That works. Thanks.

[Jakob Wagner]

Oh wait. There is actually a property called matchName. ????

group.matchName;

[Jakob Wagner]

I like the way you think creative about it. It’s a good Idea, which could work in some cases. Unfortunatly not in mine. But thanks!

[Jakob Wagner]

Unfortunately not.
I don’t think it’s possible, but if you find a way please let me know. 🙂

[Jakob Wagner]

I guess it will be left to the unknown for now. No matter what the answer is, it never really gave me any performance improvement any ways.

Thank you for answering. 🙂

[Jakob Wagner]

Only if you have a quick idea, otherwise don’t worry about it. It will just have to update on each item roll over in cs6.

[Jakob Wagner]

I have tested it out now on different systems. I’m using a dockable pallette like in your script.
It works fine on OSX. It works on win10 for the newest AE. But it does not work on windows10 and cs6. It seems like you said, the event only triggers when mouseover an item in the window not on the window it self.

Any ideas?

[Jakob Wagner]

I do something like this, maybe it’s what your looking for:

var scriptPath = File($.fileName).parent.fsName;
var imagePath = scriptPath+”/myfolder/imagename.png”

– Jakob