Get global rotation of a text layer

[Harchenko]

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

[Mylenium]

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

[Harchenko]

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

[Mylenium]

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