Hello guys and girls (?) Having scripted with photoshop before I'm wondering if there's some scripting listener plugin for After Effects. It'd be an awesome tool for script development. I'm not sure how many people script on AE and if it'd be a feature request that Adobe could listen to. Ideas, thou...

Hello fellow coders I'm sure this has been written before, but I can't find it. Does anyone know a script that will do an 'inversed' precomp, if you choose a comp, it will take the elements and bring them into their parent comp ? copying pasting layers works in terms of elements but loses whatever s...

Thank you Dan Ebberts!

Hello all I'm using readln to parse a text file line by line (I'd rather not use 'read' if ever I parse a large file), however I have no idea how to catch the end of the file: var myFile = File.openDialog ("Select file","*.txt"); var fileOK = myFile.open("r","TEXT&...

you should maybe point out that it's a time trial script

Hello people

Is it possible via an expression to change the font of a text layer ? It's not documented and is not in the scripting help either...


I've done it in photoshop (for example have a new layer for each font on your system) but can't seem to figure it out in After Effects.

Thanks

mlk

Would this be remotely possible without the use of a plug-in ?

Can javascript 'catch' a stream of data in the background (or even read from a file periodically) and update the viewport without a manual user update ?

thanks

mlk

Check ImportOptions in the scripting docs, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to import PSDs like you do do manually

hello guys I've written a quick maya mel file that outputs the coordinates of the camera every 1 second or so to a text file, and I'm trying to fetch the data of the text file in AE. I can read it in no problem, but my question is, can I do it with a kind of 'threading'. Can I have a script that che...

Could you be a little more specific ?


You want layers that are behind other layers (that have an alpha) not to show up ?

You could remove the alpha of the 'other layers' or bake an alpha. Show us what you want, I'm a tad confused.

this might work or it might not (I just commented a few lines out + added other things) I don't have AE at work. // // //3D Layer Distributor by Lloyd Alvarez (July 2006) http://aescripts.com // fixed random function - feb2008 // // //Distributes layers in 3D space within set ranges.. // // // // va...

Here ya go var token = 0; function selectExpressions(){ AI = app.project.activeItem; for (a=1;a<AI.layers.length+1; a++){ AI.layers[a].selected=false; curLayer = AI.layers[a]; if(curLayer.position.expression.length > 0 || curLayer.opacity.expression.length > 0 || curLayer.rotation.expression.length ...

Ah ok, I thought you wanted to use expressions to do the deed...


Actually it should be fairly straightforward, as you can query the 'expression' string of a layer

app.project.item(index).layer(index).expression

I'll give it a tug later, I do not have after effects at work (shake and nuke)

you mean sort between lights, cameras, footage and comps ?

it's fairly easy to do with scripting. If you still need it I'll give it a shot.

matt

By extremely popular request (errr I mean the one mail I got) I'll try to add a much friendlier user interface, I need to code a bit to relax.

matt