Description
This script prepares a shape layer (or multiple) for a soft body simulation in Newton. It creates many small solids and places them at regular distance along the shape. It also connects the original shape path to the solids using expression.
After running the script, open Newton and add the appropriate joints to create a soft body. When you are back to AE, the original shape will be automatically modified to follow the animation of the small solids.
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Automate the creation of layers
LayerGenerators is a collection of 3 tools for After Effects to automate the creation of layers.
These tools are particularly useful when a large number of layers is required, and when these layers cannot be obtained by just duplicating an existing layer.
They have been designed during the development of our plug-in Pastiche, when we realized that it would be great to have a tool to quickly generate a bunch of elements to start playing. They can be used to create text layers, solids (possibly with masks and effects) and vector shapes.
AlphabetFromText
This tool generates ASCII alphabet with the font style of the elected text layer. Each character is placed on individual layer. It also provides options to generate digits and punctuation marks, to center anchor point in layer content, and to use shape layers instead of text.
Solidity
This tool allows you to easily create a large number of colored solids, or to colorize existing layers (solid, text, or shape layers). The generated solids can possibly inherit properties from an initial solid (e.g., masks or effects). The Colorize option allows you to color the created solids or existing layers. You can select one the 60 color presets, or create your own palette. For text and shape layers, you can choose to affect the Fill color, the Stroke color, or both.
VectorIcons
This tool generates icons as shape layers. You can choose among 3000 vector icons from 6 popular icon sets. Icons can be either created by group (for instance “all brand icons”), or individually. Since icons are created with shape layer, they can be resized without loosing quality. However, for convenience you can specify the initial icon size. All icons are filled in white.
MAIN FEATURES
Intuitive and easy to use: click and go! Avoid tedious and repetitive work
Fast and robust: create hundreds of layers in a matter of seconds
Polyline creates colorful and fully controllable polygonal lines (this is nerd talk for straight lines) that can be animated in After Effects’ real 3D space. This means they can easily weave between your other 3D layers without any fancy comping necessary. After the polyline is created it can be easily edited. You can edit where it travels in space as well as the color and texture of each segment of the line (or the whole path at once).
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Please Note: This product has been discontinued. We do not provide support for it anymore.
Polyline constructs a rigged 3D polyline from the motion path of a layer. Polyline creates a straight segment between each pair of consecutive keyframes.
Segments are precomp layers controlled by expressions (position, scale and orientation).
They are connected to each other using a corner pin effect and powerful expressions. Polyline also creates null layers at each corner of the path, so you can dynamically modify the polyline by moving the nulls in 3D space. As each segment is a slice of a path precomp, you can easily change the appearence of the polyline by modifying each segment individually or the whole path at once.
Polyline interface provides a set options allowing you to control the width of the polyline, choose one the color themes, create closed polyline, and more!
Thanks to the null objects, you can also animate the segments very easily.
Limitations
The total length of a polyline cannot exceed the maximum size of a composition, i.e., 30,000px.
Some display issues sometimes appear with the built-in corner pin effects used by Polyline (Corner Pin and CC Power Pin).
Some motion paths yield degenerate cases for which a nice polyline cannot be constructed (for instance, a chain of orthogonal segments in x, y, then z plane).
Modifying segments rotation can sometimes show important texture deformation.
Note on the trial version: The trial version is fully functional except that the number of segments is limited to 3, and the Closed Path option is grayed out.
This free script creates a controllable folding screen animation from the selected project item. You can choose the direction, the number of panels, folding decay, decay order to completely customize your animation.
USAGE
Select a project item (footage, precomp or solid)
Specify the number of panels and the folding direction and decay
This free script creates a rectangular shape behind every selected text layer. You can add padding, roundness and set the box color or add a random one.
USAGE
Select some text layers
Click on Create
Compatibility : After Effects CS5, CS6, CC
Free material license
These scripts are copyrighted by Motion Boutique.
They are free for personal and commercial use but come “as is” with no warranty nor any free personal support.
Redistribution in any form is not allowed, instead always link to www.motionboutique.com for correct files.
By downloading any of these scripts, you agree the above terms.
Music “Daft Punk – Get Lucky (Dualtrax Chiptune Cover)” by dualtrax
This After Effects script allows you to transform the content of the selected text layers into ASCII art. Credits must go to Patrick Gillepsie who wrote the hard part with his implementation of the FIGfont spec in JavaScript.
You may want to take a look at all fonts provided by the script: ASCII Fonts Grid
usage
Select at least one text layer
Choose an ASCII font Click on Generate
Compatibility: CS5, CS6, and CC (and perhaps with older versions but not tested).
Quick Start Guide
DOWNLOAD
You can grab a copy of ASCII GENERATOR on aescripts
While browsing one of the Adobe Community forums to get info on Illustrator scripting, I came across this post and immediately thought it would be cool to port his script to After Effects. Gears are great shapes that can be used in various situations, but they are even better when you can animate them…
Note: There is an AE shape preset called Gear, but it uses 3 Polystars, 1 Ellipse and 3 Merge Path to create the gear (which makes adjustments more difficult).
USAGE
Activate a comp
Click on Create
Free material license
These scripts are copyrighted by Motion Boutique.
They are free for personal and commercial use but come “as is” with no warranty nor any free personal support.
Redistribution in any form is not allowed, instead always link to www.motionboutique.com for correct files.
By downloading any of these scripts, you agree the above terms.
Creates a single shape layer with a path connecting the selected layers (2D only). Use AutoBezier or Tension options to get rounded joint style.
Spanning Tree
Computes minimum spanning tree and draws each edge with a shape layer (2D and 3D support).
Triangulation
Triangulates the selected layers and draws each edge with a shape layer (2D and 3D support). If you want filled triangles (not just the edges), activate the Fill Triangles switch in the Options dialog. By default they will be filled with the same color, but you can also choose a source layer to colorize them.
Note that for functions that create shape keyframes (Triangulation with Filled Triangles turned on, and Rope), keyframing is done within the comp work area.
Quick start guide
USAGE
Compatibility: For AE CS6 or later
Current version:
1.08 – Initial release – May 2013
This After Effects script displays a palette that allows you to quickly modify the Geometry and Material options of the selected layers. If you want the panel to be dockable, place it into ScriptUI Panels folder.
