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March 28, 2025
Question

Creating settings dialogs in AE Exporter settings

  • March 28, 2025
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What would be the best way to get a more 'native' looking dialog in AE importer/exporter plugin settings. We can open a pop-up to provide extra settings but these dialogs look a bit out of place as they do not adhere to the color scheme of After Effects.

 

Is there a way to create these dialogs such that they look like they are part of After Effects with the same style buttons and background colors set by the user? I read a lot about these panels in the SDK for panels but from what I could tell all this is not available when building an importer/exporter plugin.

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Community Expert
March 28, 2025

there's no ready made solution that i know of. however, there's PF_EffectCustomUIOverlayThemeSuite, which should help you customize the look of anything you create to match AE's look.