Comments on: 3D Layer Distributor

By: cinechaud

cinechaud — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:13:34 +0000

Thanks a lot! Thank you

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:23:03 +0000

Yes, it runs on both Mac and Windows.

By: adrian silva

adrian silva — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:48:47 +0000

hey i am a mac does this script run also for mac?

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:49:29 +0000

Because this is an Adobe After Effects script not a web script.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 05:16:25 +0000

I tried to get this script to run from a normal web page so that I could make a gif file from it to run random text letters but it would not work…..why is that?

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:49:32 +0000

I think you are confusing two things. It’s been a while since I made that tutorial but I think I hooked some stuff up to an expression slider which has nothing to do with this script. You might want to give the tutorial another watch. This script can only be controlled from the script file. If you want a UI within After Effects check out this script: http://aescripts.com/distributelayers/ which is similar to this one but has a UI.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:45:44 +0000

Hi Lloyd wow thanks for your lightning-quick response!

Maybe my confusion stems from the fact that it’s just two ways to do the same thing..?

In the AE Tuts demo they’re able to change the parameters inside After Effects via an effects control panel, as opposed to changing the same parameters via scripting in ExtendScript. Two methods to do the same thing? Is there a way (that I seem to be missing) to change the parameters within AE as they appear to do in the demo?

Either way it looks I can do what I need to do, and thanks for this killer effect!!

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:35:36 +0000

You can set the variables by double clicking on the script file and setting them to whatever you’d like. This is shown in the Aetuts+ tutorial. Are you trying to do something else?

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:33:00 +0000

Please pardon my ignorance but I’m having trouble figuring out how to use the effect as a preset (as shown in the AE Tuts demo). I can run the script just fine in AE for a quick random 3D distribution, but I can’t then access it as a preset with all the nifty in-program customizable parameters.

Any advice appreciated!

By: International Promo Redux | Visually Effected

International Promo Redux | Visually Effected — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:59:11 +0000

[...] the placeholder with the corresponding animated slideshow or footage and I reused Alvarez’s 3D Layer Distributor Script to randomly distribute and then manually adjust positioning on the floating video [...]

By: sally

sally — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:07:57 +0000

Everything is working great now including me! Thanks for this wonderful effects and your patience.

By: sally

sally — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:57:10 +0000

I will. thank you

By: Lloyd Alvarez

Lloyd Alvarez — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:43:48 +0000

What the script does is “distributes” the layers in 3D space. The reason you can’t see them in your comp is because they are probably out of the camera view after they are distributed. Move your camera back in space to find the layers. I would recommend you watch the Aetuts tutorial again for more specific instructions on how to define the range in which the layers are distributed.

By: sally

sally — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:22:31 +0000

The Effects panel is blank and after selecting layers and pressing “u” no values or expressions are are revealing. The layer are not visiible any longer in the comp window although opacity settings for these layers say 100%.

By: sally

sally — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:12:20 +0000

Thanks for getting back so quick.
Loaded it as per instructed and now I can see it under the File menu but when I apply it to two selected solids in a new comp the layers are not visible anymore…what am I doing wrong.
thanks in advance