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James Smith
May 19, 2023 at 10:42 am in reply to: ExtendScript Toolkit – After Effects

Hi Walter, this is an old post but just wondered if you knew whether it’s possible to set the layer for the trackMatte in the latest version of after effects. Previous versions always used the layer above, but you can now choose. Appreciate your advice, thanks in advance! 😃
James Smith
January 6, 2023 at 11:00 pm in reply to: Detecting modal dialogue box

Hi Reuben, happy new year! i’m experiencing exactly the same problem, did you have any luck using the suppressDialogs? I’ve tried this within the function called by the mouseover event listener, but it’s still causing the scriptUI to freeze. Be great to hear from you, thanks!
James Smith
November 6, 2019 at 3:40 am in reply to: how to create a color picker with extendscript

Thanks so much for posting this code. I appreciate it was a while ago, but i’m struggling to make this work on a dockable UI panel. The swatch appears in the correct default color, but after clicking and selecting a new color, the swatch fails to update. Is it possible to get this working or is there a limitation that’s causing the color to revert to the default? Really appreciate any help to get this working, look forward to your reply 🙂
James Smith
October 17, 2018 at 6:00 pm in reply to: Help! 2D vector rotate.

Thanks Dan, got it working and now much faster when only calculating the Math.cos and Math.sin once!

Wish AE would allowed us to create plugins that can calculate and output data for pick whipping. Heavy expressions just become so slow.

AE 2019 is apparently 5-6 times faster at evaluating expressions, fingers crossed this will improve things.

Best wishes!
James Smith
October 17, 2018 at 4:51 pm in reply to: Help! 2D vector rotate.

Hey thanks Dan that works!

To clarify the other part, if I have an array of points that create a shape :

[0,0],[200,0],[200,100],[0,100]

Is the only way of rotating the shape by using a for loop and applying the function to each point? Or is there a more efficient way to rotate an array of points?

Cheers!
James Smith
October 17, 2018 at 11:00 am in reply to: Help! 2D vector rotate.

Hi Dan, thanks for all your support!

Do you know the most efficient way to rotate the point around a different origin eg. [10,100] not [0,0] ?

Also if I have a shape made of 4 random points, does all of this function need to be recalculated per point or can it be more efficient?

Really appreciate your support!