Is there a script I can get or make to paste a particular image at the exact cursor position.?

[Maciej34414097jjtw]

I would like to make a weather map graphic with lots of symbols and pasting them all over the map takes me ages. I just want to select an item from the project folder window and then click wherever I want in the project window and the image would be pasted into that position. Is there a paste image at cursor position plugin or something I could use to aid me in this?

Ideally a scale option would also be handy but as long as the centre position is central then I could always scale them down after if they pasted in too big!

Any help would be appreciated.

Mac

[nishu_kush]

Thanks for writing in, Maciej34414097jjtw.

Give Chat GPT a try. It has helped some users in creating scripts from scratch for After Effects.

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks,
Nishu

[Mathias Moehl · Accepted solution]

As far as I know, Ae scripts have no way to retrieve the cursor position.

As a workaround, you could insert a null layer, say as first layer of the comp, and drag it to the position where you want to insert.

Then you could execute a script, which inserts + scales a new layer at the position of the first layer and then selects the first layer again such that you can easily grab and move it again for the next round.