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Alan_AEDScripts
Inspiring
April 27, 2017
Question

Special characters in expressions

  • April 27, 2017
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Hey there have been looking around the net, does anybody have any pointers re: AE fixing the issue of expressions resolving to "?" when they encounter a special character? I thought Adobe had announced that they had fixed that... ?

Thanks.

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ericsten
ericsten
Inspiring
May 23, 2017

Can you give an example of an expression that does this for you?

Alan_AEDScripts
Alan_AEDScriptsAuthor
Inspiring
May 24, 2017

If a layer in my comp is called "↖first"   ie. special character, and another layer references this character in an expression,

it breaks... this is how it resolves if I pickwhip etc.

thisComp.layer("?first").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")

Mathias Moehl
Community Expert
Mathias MoehlCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 24, 2017

as far as I know this is not yet fixed.

Mathias Möhl - Developer of tools like BeatEdit and Automation Blocks for Premiere Pro and After Effects
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