Return-Path: Received: from mail-la0-f45.google.com ([209.85.215.45] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 5314659 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:13:56 +0100 Received: by mail-la0-f45.google.com with SMTP id eh20so4044105lab.4 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:16:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=Z+1rLZ3l8xKK0Po+x+FES3l22g3zI/znMxLD9BJ9P64=; b=mKcKrsWL4Ig2lVd/dVmfy59GYVL0GSDgu0bQYbciN+vCzsN5eKLnIWVZSUJwTpmyha s8X+E4vi4riosrXXygofcUf1gs2GzGroBSeKooznIwOvPmMR/8vShzcqQVcu3TKaN9qj VEuldx0gsfyYKh1PjKrdKGu6QcWpItL1XsWq5C1JhJLZ9Pc8KbLeMcno3vsn7fikvjqv hmugEIGGSTuBP2pUrCUlo+I7kRihryw/fkzxZsDgNpIP7ajUPYIXdsQ56Kcj0MZbd50p GdDW16VhJJbW+cgiMMe4zdOau/fM0+ngVU+z4XcWHfgspoTz9JRZgNyU/+p8Ek3hZnKo +HEg== X-Received: by 10.152.22.4 with SMTP id z4mr1535347lae.14.1386782198741; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:16:38 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.22.98 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:16:18 -0800 (PST) From: Byron Nash Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:16:18 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Expressions: "this" clone stroke To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0158b8e2563e3a04ed4564a8 --089e0158b8e2563e3a04ed4564a8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Is there a way to tell an expression to look at its own layer name, property, etc? For instance, I'm using some expressions on Clone Paint strokes and would like to have the Clone Stroke name be generated dynamically instead of me changing it to "Clone 1", "Clone 2" etc... I have this line on my clone position and keep duplicating the stroke. It would be nice to have the name of the stroke change for me each time. Something like "this" in certain contexts in scripting. effect("Paint").stroke("Clone 1").transform.position+75 --089e0158b8e2563e3a04ed4564a8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Is there a way to tell an expression to look at its own la= yer name, property, etc? For instance, I'm using some expressions on Cl= one Paint strokes and would like to have the Clone Stroke name be generated= dynamically instead of me changing it to "Clone 1", "Clone = 2" etc...

I have this line on my clone position and keep duplicating t= he stroke. It would be nice to have the name of the stroke change for me ea= ch time. Something like "this" in certain contexts in scripting. = =A0
effect("Paint").stroke= ("Clone 1").transform.position+75
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