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by nab
March 26th, 2007, 1:20 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Path to After Effects for scripting
Replies: 8
Views: 15329

Hi Byron, I don't know if that helps but what you can do is "Thinking inverse". Rather than viewing your workflow as "I start first with PS because PS is required to treat my bunch of images, then I call AE because AE is required to create the final project", you can view it as &...
by nab
March 21st, 2007, 7:23 pm
Forum: Expressions Tutorials
Topic: 3D Swarm tutorial
Replies: 8
Views: 94294

Nice tutorial Paul !

I would add as a remark (or in the Tips section), that the random() method may also take an array or a pair of arrays as argument; it's sometimes handy to write the random stuff in a single line.

for instance

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min = -250;
max = 250;
random([min,min,min],[max,max,max]);
by nab
March 4th, 2007, 7:27 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: duplicate project item
Replies: 4
Views: 10917

Hey explorer,

1.

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app.project.item(1).duplicate();
returns a CompItem object if item 1 is a comp.

2. I don't think so
by nab
February 28th, 2007, 3:03 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: create folder in project
Replies: 3
Views: 8840

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app.project.items.addFolder("Toto");
new in 7.0
by nab
February 13th, 2007, 11:09 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: You Do Not Have Read Access to File:
Replies: 4
Views: 10382

Same problem on my system with the -r option Here is workaround i've found...using the -s : (runScript.bat) "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 7.0\Support Files\AfterFX.exe" -s "var myScriptFile = new File("C:/Hello.jsx"); myScriptFile.open(); eval(myScriptFile.read...
by nab
February 13th, 2007, 11:05 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Determining Width and Height of a Text Layer
Replies: 62
Views: 125541

woH, great job Dale ! 8)
by nab
February 7th, 2007, 12:11 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Determining Width and Height of a Text Layer
Replies: 62
Views: 125541

No problem, the files have been send again (at the creative-workflow-hacks address). Check your PM as well.
by nab
February 7th, 2007, 1:54 am
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Determining Width and Height of a Text Layer
Replies: 62
Views: 125541

My compiler settings were not properly adjusted and the 'TextLength' plugin was working fine on my pc only ! So I recompiled with 'good settings' and now this should work for any windows user. Here is the new link (there is also a sample .jsx in the zip to show how to retrieve the text dimensions fr...
by nab
February 6th, 2007, 9:36 pm
Forum: Script requests
Topic: AE to C4D
Replies: 13
Views: 39944

This is a script (not an expression), so copy/paste the code into a text editor and save it with the .jsx extension.
In AE you access script through the command File>>Scripts>>...
by nab
February 6th, 2007, 2:39 am
Forum: Script requests
Topic: AE to C4D
Replies: 13
Views: 39944

What kind of help do your need ?
please be more precise
by nab
February 6th, 2007, 2:37 am
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Selected Mask Vertices
Replies: 1
Views: 7302

Nope !
by nab
February 6th, 2007, 2:36 am
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Determining Width and Height of a Text Layer
Replies: 62
Views: 125541

I can't help on the mac side but I've sent my source code to Dale.
by nab
January 23rd, 2007, 8:52 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Determining Width and Height of a Text Layer
Replies: 62
Views: 125541

An easy way to obtain the correct text length when the text is not visible (or partially), is -through scripting- to duplicate the original text layer, set appropriately the anchor point and position (something like [0,0] and [10,compH/2] should be ok), then apply the effect/plugin to this dummy lay...
by nab
January 22nd, 2007, 10:59 pm
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Determining Width and Height of a Text Layer
Replies: 62
Views: 125541

Thanks guys for your feedback I've modified the plug-in a bit to export the height of the text layer as well (the plug is now called "TextDimensions.aex") . I have few new ideas to improve the plug-in but it takes a lot a time -for a beginner- to understand how functions work and how they ...
by nab
January 22nd, 2007, 4:42 am
Forum: Scripts Discussion
Topic: Determining Width and Height of a Text Layer
Replies: 62
Views: 125541

TextLength.aex v1.0

Hello guys, I bring another tool to determine the text length. It's based on the same method used by vidpat's TextInfo, thus with the same limitation, but my approach is a little bit different. To avoid weird behaviors with ui updates, and actually in my applications I don't really need sliders, I j...

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