Proper puppet pin creation with scripts
Hello.
I'm trying to write a script that will create a bunch of puppet pins on a layer, but I have stumbled into an unexpeceted problem - I just can't create it properly.
Here's the code
var selectedLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0];
var puppetEffect = selectedLayer.Effects.addProperty("ADBE FreePin3");
var ARAPGroup = puppetEffect.property("ADBE FreePin3 ARAP Group");
var meshGroup = ARAPGroup.property("ADBE FreePin3 Mesh Group");
var meshAtom = meshGroup.addProperty("ADBE FreePin3 Mesh Atom");
var posPins = meshAtom.property("ADBE FreePin3 PosPins");
var pinAtom = posPins.addProperty("ADBE FreePin3 PosPin Atom");
var thePin = pinAtom.property(3);
thePin.setValueAtTime(0, [0,0])
Here's what I get.
Above is the pin created manually, below - with the script. Mesh seems to be disabled and pin position is not shown in the viewport
UPD
In the end it seems that I need to set Vector Offset and Vector Index hidden properties for each pin, but those properties are read-only.
Maybve there's some command I can execute with app.executeCommand() that I'm not aware of?
UPD #2
It seems that setting proper Puppet pin programmatically is impossible. The only question left if "Why, Adobe? Why?"
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