Creative COW | Liam Carlin | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/liamcarlin/activity/ Activity feed for Liam Carlin. Fri, 15 May 2026 19:23:54 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 a502f0a78516ec8d9661554b77029a39 Liam Carlin replied to the discussion Scripting - Centre Mask on Shape Layer in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/scripting-centre-mask-on-shape-layer/#post-2425938 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:22:40 +0000 Reply to Scripting - Centre Mask on Shape Layer

Thanks incredible, thank you Filip! It makes a lot of sense. Thanks for your time 👍

]]> a7f3bc6b19ee82f365951e670e13a177 Liam Carlin replied to the discussion Scripting - Centre Mask on Shape Layer in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/scripting-centre-mask-on-shape-layer/#post-2425921 Tue, 08 Mar 2022 04:20:04 +0000 Reply to Scripting - Centre Mask on Shape Layer

Thanks Filip,

That makes sense. I have previously used sourceRectAtTime(); on text layers before.

However I don’t actually know how to implement this. Are you able to see where I am going wrong.

Thanks,
Liam

app.beginUndoGroup("Undo Rectangle Mask");
            myLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[i];
            newMask =…

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]]> 1f68415893c2eaf647d204cf595ce452 Liam Carlin started the discussion Scripting - Centre Mask on Shape Layer in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/scripting-centre-mask-on-shape-layer/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:17:29 +0000 Scripting - Centre Mask on Shape Layer

Hey Guys,

I have created this snippet of code that creates a rectangle mask on any layer given it’s dimension. It works fine on all layers except Shape Layers and Text Layers. I can’t quite figure where I’m going wrong. It doesn’t centre when I thought it would. How do I center the mask?

The image show’s how it’s not cantered.

myLayer =…

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