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October 31, 2024
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Get global rotation of a text layer

  • October 31, 2024
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Hi, could someone suggest a way to get global rotation of a text layer when an animator acts on it? In After Effects, when working with expressions, its boundbox does not work correctly if the layer is rotated by the animator. I want to try to get information through creating a plugin, but I need a kick of help

 
 
 

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Mylenium
Legend
November 1, 2024

There are no SDK hooks for any of that and that settles that. The only info you have is the outlines of the text via the AEGP_TextLayerSuite1 and the layer bounding box via the normal AEGP suites.

 

Mylenium

Mylenium
Legend
October 31, 2024

Unless you want to re-create the entire animator code there's no reliable way. For single words and single animators of course it would be as trivial as adding/ subtracting the animator value from the layer rotation, but anything beyond that gets infinitely complicated. There is no way to access the internal calculations and fetch the actual information.

 

Mylenium

HarchenkoAuthor
Inspiring
November 1, 2024

I just want to clarify to be 100% sure that this is not possible.
Are you a C++ plugin developer for After Effects?