[Ryan Paterson]

Did you ever find a solution for this? I’m having the exact same problem

[Ryan Paterson]

Just for posterity, in case anyone else happens upon this thread, I found a way to make the contents truly dynamic, in that you can duplicate this expression and it will continue to work-

prop = thisProperty; //Current Property (obviously)
ind = prop.propertyGroup(2); //Gets the container of the property (adjust to hierarchy)

prop.propertyGroup(3)(ind.propertyIndex + 1).transform.opacity.valueAtTime(time – .5)

//Goes all the way up in the hierarchy, then back down to one group below the current one and extracts whatever value you need, offset in time

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Dan! I’ll be back before long 😉

[Ryan Paterson]

nevermind I fixed that error message, didn’t realize I had to specify the layer before going into the propertyGroup.

Would still love to know about a proper reference of all expression functions though 🙂

[Ryan Paterson]

No I get how it works, I’m just wondering how to find out about that without having to resort to posting on here. I’m just asking if there’s a more in-depth resource than the AE Expression Reference which I often find to be lacking information.

And also when I used that code I got the all-too familiar “Layer level Property Groups dont have enclosing groups”, not sure why

[Ryan Paterson]

Yes! That’s exactly what I was looking for- can I ask you this though, how would one go about finding out about that 2nd set of brackets?? I’m looking at the Expression Reference right now and there’s not even a hint of it anywhere. Is there a doc somewhere that lists all the properties and methods for AE expressions?

[Ryan Paterson]

That is a nice little trick, so how would I go about navigating a hierarchy. For instance if I wanted Sibling 1 to take Sibling 2’s Opacity? Oviously you could just pickwhip it, but if I wanted it to be dynamic? Is that possible or do I have to explicitly name the group I’d like to use?

[Ryan Paterson]

This is probably too late but I just saw this post now, to go over a million, just multiply the slider value in the first line of the expression like so-

var num = effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”) * 100 (or whatever number you want)

[Ryan Paterson]

Very nice, Object Index seems to be a bit of a life saver. Too bad its not in the Iterator group where it belongs!

Thanks again

[Ryan Paterson]

Lovely, thank you!

[Ryan Paterson]

Submitted 🙂