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Marko Suto
December 14, 2018 at 8:32 am in reply to: Reference a variable comp name

Dan the Daysaver, thanks a lot, again!!! 🙂
Marko Suto
December 13, 2018 at 5:25 pm in reply to: Getting position from first keyframe only

I’m no expert, but “valueAtTime” sounds like what you’re looking for?

thisComp.layer(1).position.valueAtTime(1/x) /// x being your comp frame rate
Marko Suto
December 13, 2018 at 5:14 pm in reply to: Increasing the value every frame by a specific ammount

Idea is to have it rotating in the same direction.
Soundkeys give me a positive or 0 output for each frame, so I wanted to add the value of each frame to the sum of previous rotations.

Example:
1. frame soundkeys output = 10
1. frame rotation = 10

2. frame soundkeys output = 30
2. frame rotation = (10+30) = 40

3. frame soundkeys output = 0
3. frame rotation = (40+0) = 40
Marko Suto
December 13, 2018 at 3:57 pm in reply to: Is it possible to subtract a shape from a repeated shape using merge paths

Have you tried precomposing the repeated shapes and then applying the mask on the precomp?
Marko Suto
December 13, 2018 at 9:01 am in reply to: Spreadsheet -> AE

Hi, this is what I use for daily TV broadcast:

https://aescripts.com/compsfromspreadsheet/
Marko Suto
November 23, 2018 at 2:46 pm in reply to: Text box anchor point from baseline

Works like a charm, many thanks for all the effort!!!
Marko Suto
November 23, 2018 at 12:37 pm in reply to: Text box anchor point from baseline

Thanks for clarifying!
I have downloaded your downsaved files, will go through them now.
Marko Suto
November 23, 2018 at 11:11 am in reply to: Text box anchor point from baseline

I’ve tried the above mentioned, but I can’t get it to work.
As before, I’ve tried to enter the code in Anchor point expression, but I don’t know how to refer to the project item…
Marko Suto
November 22, 2018 at 9:47 am in reply to: Text box anchor point from baseline

Cheers Walter!

Will give it a try as soon as I can (hopefully later today) and let you know how it worked!
Marko Suto
November 21, 2018 at 1:50 pm in reply to: Text box anchor point from baseline

Thanks for the reply and link Walter!

I’m afraid I can’t open the project, it is done in a newer version of AE.

I have tried similar thing to your suggestion, used the iExpressions script for bottom align which does the job well – adds lines breaks on empty lines.
BUT it works only on point text, not box text. I need text box to limit the width of text.

I tried to break the lines using VBA code in Excel (that’s where my source text is from – using CompsFromSpreadsheets script) with point text in AE, but my VBA script had problems with the width of the text (when I limit the max number of characters for one line, there’s a big difference in line full of “m” and “i” as far as width is concerned).

This “sourceText.value.baselineLocs”

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/after-effects/using/creating-editing-text-layers.html

under “Scripts and expressions for working with text” section,
gave me hope I could use this array to get the Y position of the last line and use it as anchor point. But I don’t know how to define array and how to read the “N-1” value from the array.