You have to work out when the animation should end. The time it takes for the layer to hit the ground is the distance traveled / velocity, so you can use (start position - end position) / velocity. Position let yVelocity = 200; //pixels per second let oscFreq = 1.5; //oscillations per second let osc...

I wrote a script that does a similar thing. It's all open-source, you can find it here: https://github.com/stibinator/stibsAEScripts/blob/master/ScriptUI%20Panels/copy_multi.jsx Note that it depends on some library functions to work. If you want to use it you'll need them, which is best done by down...

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Yes there is. You can use it to create global master functions that means you can write one expression and have it control multiple properties and multiple layers, without them simply copying the value. This is incredibly useful for procedural animation where you have scads of layers and you want th...

If I try saving a setting like "my test settings" I notice in the prefs.txt file that the setting gets called ["settings_my test settings"] . And when I retrieve it I only specify the name as app.settings.getSetting("my test settings") Does this mean that the reason AE ...

I'm trying to retrieve the label colours from the user's prefs. What I'm using is: var label1 = app.settings.getSetting("Label Preference Color Section 5", "Label Color ID 2 # 1", PREFType.PREF_Type_MACHINE_INDEPENDENT) the section name and key for the preferences are copy-pasted...

I was looking for exactly the same thing. Did you find anything?

I want to write a script that creates guides at a layer's position in the comp window, but I can't find anything in the AE Scripting guide. Is it possible to do this? Seems like it should be…

Have a look at the After Effects Scripting Guide for info on how to script after effects, and the Javascript Tools Guide for how to build UI elements.

you call the main() function right at the bottom, so it gets called when the script loads. I think that might be your problem. Comment out the last line and see how you go.

As far as scripting AE goes I think you're out of luck. The After Effects scripting guide mentions cache settings regarding memory usage, but not anything related to the cache file location. Assuming OSX by your path, you could use this shell script to kludge it: cat <path to your current prefs file...

If comp A is sitting in the middle of comp B, you could make the solid S' a child of comp A and then just use the coordinates of solid S, since these coordinates will be relative to the comp-space of the nested comp A. So the expression would be: comp("Comp A").layer("S").transfo...

For 2D, the lookAt() function in After Effects’ expression language doesn’t work as expected. When the looked-at point is below the looking-from point the direction reverses. This has been driving me nuts for years, so to save me having to go back to my high school trigonometry, I've created a f...

This code: startSpeed = 10+Math.random()*80; var easeOut = new KeyframeEase(startSpeed, 100); var easeIn = new KeyframeEase(4000,0.1); //create the keyframes and ease them theEllipse.property("Size").setValueAtTime(startTime,[4440,4440]); theEllipse.property("Size").setTemporalEa...

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask… The search function on this forum is a bit wonky. For example I was searching for the script function setTemporalEaseAtKey, and got this error: The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: settemporaleaseatkey. Re...