Include js files to the jsx script

[StefanStehlik]

Is it possible to include the "polylabel" algorithm in the After Effects .jsx script, without using CEP panel. 

Link to the algorithm:

https://github.com/mapbox/polylabel

[Mylenium]

Since it's plain JS you should have no problems just copy & pasting into whatever you want. Of course you will need to adapt variables and replace some functions with their AE functions. Not sure what more you need to know. The specifics will depend on what you actually want to do with this.

Mylenium 

[shachar carmi]

look at the "call nested script.jsx" file, located at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects 2022\Support Files\Scripts\(instructional)".

it shows how to include another file from a script. perhaps that would work for you.

[Mathias Moehl · Accepted solution]

Modern JS variants and the pretty old jsx od After Effects have some syntax differences (mostly new features not available in jsx, yet). You can be lucky that copy & paste of the js code works out of the box. Maybe you also have to tweak the code or use a system like babel.

[Justin Taylor-Hyper Brew]

Finding ExtendScript-ready libraries is pretty challenging these days, as ES3 is extremely old. If you need to do any advanced calculations, you'll have a much easier (and faster) time with a CEP panel.