[Pete Menich]

still doesn’t work.

I tried several permutations & still nothing

[Pete Menich]

as usual, moments after posting I found a solution….

linear(time%2, 1, 2,0,100)

[Pete Menich]

Hey Dan – long time no brain pick! Thanks for looking at this.

It didn’t work for me I’m afraid & not I’m sure I understand why.

I’ve attached a reduced version to help illustrate it better…

In ‘CompNames’ I have a single text layer that I’ve named ‘Russia’.

I need the code to ‘look into’ CompAreas and find the layer that starts with ‘Russia’.

(Russia,6600000,6600)

I then need it to return the value after the fist comma (6600000) which, I will then use in a RangeMapper function to drive the scale. (I can try and work this bit out).

So, if I change the text to say ‘Canada’, it will find the layer starting with Canada (Canada,3800000,3800) and return 3800000.

FYI: (the second value after the last comma is just the first value/1000, because sometimes AE freaks out with numbers over 32K)

Once I have this working, I can then paste it to all the country names in my comp & (hopefully) I can get them to scale relative to land area.

P

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