Very old topic, but this came on top of my Google search. I thought the methods were too much effort for my project. What did the trick for me was toggling the ‘motion blur’ option. That made the front of the moving patch blurry and worked for what I wanted to accomplish. Hope it will work for others too, because it’s a very easy option!

Thanks for the fast reply!

With if (a = b) I always get the first (if) value
With if (a == b) I always get the second (else) value,

regardless of the y-position’s being the same or not.

The y-position of the pin-layer gets it’s value from a script. And the pin-layer is a guide layer (does that make a difference?)

I tried it too with:

s = (a-b);

if (s =…

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Hi Expression Pro’s!

My if else isn’t working, even though I think it should.

Situation?

If the y-position of two layers in a particular comp is the same, nothing should happen.
If the y-position of two layers in a particular comp varies, the y position of ‘the layer with this expression‘ should shift upward 30 pixels.

a = comp(“Comp…

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Hi, thanks for the update. This is almost working for me. But not quite. Hope someone will come to the rescue!

It works great for single line texts, but if you add another line, the position of that text layer won’t change. You’ll end up with screwed layout.

Is there anyone who’s got an answer how to fix this? Maybe add the total height of… Read more