[Quba Michalski]

…it does not seem to work 🙁

So I have a composition in my project already assigned to the name of “depthMapComp”

I successfully add it to my current composition (theComp), but get that “read only attribute” error when I try to change its active state

var depthMapLayer = theComp.layers.add(depthMapComp);
depthMapLayer.active = false;

Quba Michalski
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[Quba Michalski]

You can use layer styles (double-click on a layer name) and introduce 1px thick border, inside, then turn fill opacity to 0%. That should result in a solid edge.

Quba Michalski
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[Quba Michalski]

OK, honestly, is there anything you CAN’T do, Dan? Amazing! I am (as always) very impressed and deeply thankful 🙂

Now I just gotta figure out how to add a little bit of transition between the resulting keyframes and we have ourselves an extremely useful expression. No worries, I will try to tackle this one on my own 🙂

f’n magnets, how do they work?
Dan Ebberts, how does he do it?

Quba Michalski
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[Quba Michalski]

Thanks Dan,

It is the first time I experienced wiggle going outside of the range – gotta keep an eye on that.

Since the effect is a part of a tutorial/preset I am developing, I don’t want to leave anything to chance. Defining a seed manually could be a good idea, but the whole thing needs to be easily duplicable and I don’t want to force the people who use it to have any headaches.

I think your answer solved the mystery: “It just happens”.

I will stick to keeping the layer in a separate composition. Tested it with many different variables and everything seems to work OK.

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[Quba Michalski]

This is very weird. I managed to eliminate the buggy behavior by pre-composing the offending layer and all its effects. When it is sitting alone in its own composition the wiggle seems to be working fine.

Still no bloody idea what was causing it to misbehave.

Quba Michalski
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[Quba Michalski]

I just checked the project and it behaves identically both in CS3 and CS5. I would like to share the file with you, but I am not too eager to release it before I complete the project…

So far the only workaround I can think of is to clamp the value using the linear function. It will remove the exceeded limits problem, but meanwhile I would like to understand why the hell is this thing happening in the first place.

Quba Michalski
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