Change colours using code

[Psychrome]

Hello, I am trying to figure out how to change a fill colour with code. For example, if I have a solid with a colour overlay of red how can I change this to another hex value? Many thanks.

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

hexToRgb(your color code here) into whatever property or effects control you want. 

Mylenium

[Psychrome]

Great, thanks. I was also trying to read the value from a text layer so I needed to convert it to a string otherwise it gave me an error...

var hexColorSource = thisComp.layer("TextLayer").text.sourceText;
var hexColor = hexColorSource.value.toString();
hexToRgb(hexColor)

[Dan Ebberts · Accepted solution]

You just need to make sure you get the value of the sourceText:

var hexColor = thisComp.layer("TextLayer").text.sourceText.value;
hexToRgb(hexColor)

[Psychrome]

Great, even better, thanks! I've been told off for "verbose code" before. 😆