Hi,

Is there a scripting equivalent of toWorld expression? I need to find world position of (possibly) parented objects.

Thanks




edit: I realize i can set expression to temporary property and calculate it that way, but I dont want to do this.

Figured out everything except the way to keep the declaration. If someone knows how to read it out, do tell... Went with getting the first line as you would from a simple text file, checking if it starts with "<?xml", and if it does, saving it out and writing it into file before the modifi...

Thanks Xavier. I hacked something quickly with propertyIndex as well so i can move on but ill take a closer look at your code as it seems a bit nicer than what i have.

thanks again

Does anyone have some examples on how to create an XML file and modify it (adding elements and such)? I know the basics but i've mostly dealt with modification of existing XML files in the past, not creating one from the scratch. Also, i figured .appendChild(), but when i read XML file, append some ...

Im having a problem finding a simple solution with this. I want to add an expression on selected property after i create a few sliders on the same layer. But, once you use .addProperty application seems to lose the selection (property selection, at least). So, if this: var selectedProperty = selecte...

The weird thing is even if the layer is 2D, its transform values are still 3 dimensional. So property.value.length will return 3 for scale, position, anchor point, etc. even if your layer is 2D. But, it will return undefined for one dimensional values like rotation. So, you might need a combination ...

You would have figured it out if only you read the previous thread

In Paul's example theProp gets object property, while for the effect parameters you need to grab property group and than a property under that group. var comp = app.project.activeItem; var prop = app.project.activeItem.selectedProperties[0]; var expr = "x = 50;"; if (prop.isEffect == true)...

Never mind, figured it out.

Hi,

How do you check if an effect is available (installed)?

Depending on whether user has a certain plugin/effect installed i need to either add that or perform a set of actions to mimic the desired effect so i need to check first.

Appreciate your help.

In fact, it does exactly that. Obviously, the psd files have to be identical or at least identically structured. Here's the code: // psdFileData is a multidimentional array which contains both source and // destination paths for each psd file. // eg: [D:\folder1\myfile.psd,D:\folder2\myfile\myfile.p...

Searching for hours on this to no avail... I need to copy entire folder and it's contents (files and folders, whole hierarchy) on file system but both scripting and tools guides suggest there's no easy command to do this directly from after effects. I can copy individual files using fileObj.copy (ta...

Hi Mikeoverbeck,

I had the same problem (psd's only though, no ai) and in the end i resorted to saving a project as .aepx and editing out xml. It wasn't fun but it worked. Unfortunately i cannot share the script but i could post a snippet related to xml parsing tomorrow if it helps.

I suspected that would be the case. Made these functions to deal with it: function getItemProjectPath(item) { var parent = item.parentFolder; var string = ""; while (parent != app.project.rootFolder) { var name = "/" + parent.name; string = name.concat(string); parent = parent.pa...

Another question, is it possible to get item index under parent folder? If structure is something like this: Root |-- FolderA |-- FolderB |-- ItemA |-- ItemB |-- ItemC ItemC is of an index 5 but, knowing that, how would i figure out that this item is of an index 3 under its own parent folder? Trying...