[Mike Overbeck]

I’ve posted the tutorial on Vimeo and Youtube.
https://vimeo.com/170409373
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nMdEai9IxU
It’s a pretty long one.
-Mike O

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[Mike Overbeck]

I’m putting together a tutorial now on creating a highly articulated mouth rig using Joysticks ‘n Sliders. This involves making mask path morph shapes and tying them to sliders that bake the animation to the mask paths. Should hopefully be ready to post it soon. Here is an animation test done with it.
https://vimeo.com/169809649

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[Mike Overbeck]

Just wanted to say that this post saved my bacon. Thanks Dan!
the findMenuCommandId() and executeCommand() methods are extremely powerful, yet I can’t find any Adobe documentation on them (Oh Adobe..)
Here’s an interesting related thread over at AE Enhancers. Some of the info may be different since CS3.
https://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=889

[Mike Overbeck]

Thanks for the reply Dan! Ah, using non-compact naming might do it!
Here is some script that I was working on to ride up the group chain and add it to the array.

function groupCheck(x){
try {
return thisProperty.propertyGroup(x).name
}
catch(err){
return false
}
};
fullgroup = [];
for (var i = 4; i > 0; i--){
if (groupCheck(i) != false && groupCheck(i) != thisLayer.name){
fullgroup.push(groupCheck(i))
}
}

[Mike Overbeck]

I was putting together some code that would hamfist these properties and property groups into arrays with the .name function until I realized the resulting formatting is not useable. All .name results capitalize the first letter and multi-word props are separated with spaces. I don’t know the purpose of the .name function.