aescripts + aeplugins

Yan-K Jhong

Hello, I just downloaded Origami Trial, but i coudn't open it.

It shows "Origami packages file is absent, Please reinstall Origami", and "Unable to execute script at line 95. null is not an object", and "AEGP Plugin origami: null is not an object (5027 :: 12)"

i'm pretty sure i have install the script and plug-in correctly

System:

Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit Traditional Chinese

After Effects CC 2015.2 (13.7.1.6) English

Nik Ska

Timothy Yan said:

Hello, I just downloaded Origami Trial, but i coudn't open it.

It shows "Origami packages file is absent, Please reinstall Origami", and "Unable to execute script at line 95. null is not an object", and "AEGP Plugin origami: null is not an object (5027 :: 12)"

i'm pretty sure i have install the script and plug-in correctly

System:

Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit Traditional Chinese

After Effects CC 2015.2 (13.7.1.6) English

Please download again from aescripts, we've just fixed this issue

John Kirksey

Nice work Nik.  I would also like to, sometimes, create the Voronoi Shatter, and keep the masks contiguous (with the image appearing intact). With that I could do other things with the masks ... like using Newton2 to animate.  Can this be done?

Nik Ska

John Kirksey said:

Nice work Nik.  I would also like to, sometimes, create the Voronoi Shatter, and keep the masks contiguous (with the image appearing intact). With that I could do other things with the masks ... like using Newton2 to animate.  Can this be done?

Well now you can check "Fragments to layers" and get separate layers with masks you can use with Newton. I haven't tested Newton yet, but sure it will work. So basically you just get common AE layers you can do whatever you want with.

John Kirksey

Nik Ska said:

John Kirksey said:

Nice work Nik.  I would also like to, sometimes, create the Voronoi Shatter, and keep the masks contiguous (with the image appearing intact). With that I could do other things with the masks ... like using Newton2 to animate.  Can this be done?

Well now you can check "Fragments to layers" and get separate layers with masks you can use with Newton. I haven't tested Newton yet, but sure it will work. So basically you just get common AE layers you can do whatever you want with.

Great .... then I will buy it now ....

John Kirksey

One more question Nik .... will this script work in AE CS6?

Nik Ska

John Kirksey said:

One more question Nik .... will this script work in AE CS6?

Sure it does (though the interface is not as pretty as on CC2015)

Dave Glanz

This looks fantastic. Is there a way to control the mesh  a bit more - let's say you wanted to create a flower pattern, kinda like this: http://www.origami-instructions.com/images/easy-yamaguchi-dahlia/thumbnails/14-yamaguchi-dahlia.jpg

Is there any way to control the script to split up the pieces this way?

Nik Ska

Dave Glanz said:

This looks fantastic. Is there a way to control the mesh  a bit more - let's say you wanted to create a flower pattern, kinda like this: http://www.origami-instructions.com/images/easy-yamaguchi-dahlia/thumbnails/14-yamaguchi-dahlia.jpg

Is there any way to control the script to split up the pieces this way?

Hi, Dave. We plan to add more mesh types soon, and add User masks and shapes support, so you would be able to make your own mesh and animate it with origami.

charles dizier

Nice work !

John Kirksey

Nik,

On the install, I'm using AE-CS6.  Where do I install the "basicSlice.jsxbin" ....?

Nik Ska

John Kirksey said:

Nik,

On the install, I'm using AE-CS6.  Where do I install the "basicSlice.jsxbin" ....?

Please copy (Origami_packages) folder with this file inside to Plug-ins folder

John Kirksey

Nik Ska said:

Nik,

On the install, I'm using AE-CS6.  Where do I install the "basicSlice.jsxbin" ....?

Please copy (Origami_packages) folder with this file inside to Plug-ins folder

I think I have it installed as instructed but I don't see it in my "Window" drop-down in AE.
Here's a link to a screen shot I just took of my Plugins Folder
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxBo3nkR_bb3OFZTZVVVNXlzbXM

Nik Ska

John Kirksey said:

Nik Ska said:

John Kirksey said:

Nik,

On the install, I'm using AE-CS6.  Where do I install the "basicSlice.jsxbin" ....?

Please copy (Origami_packages) folder with this file inside to Plug-ins folder

I think I have it installed as instructed but I don't see it in my "Window" drop-down in AE.
Here's a link to a screen shot I just took of my Plugins Folder
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxBo3nkR_bb3OFZTZVVVNXlzbXM


You have to copy Origami.jsx to scriptui panels folder, otherwise Origami will appear only in Effecrs

John Kirksey

Nik Ska said:

Nik Ska said:

Nik,

On the install, I'm using AE-CS6.  Where do I install the "basicSlice.jsxbin" ....?

Please copy (Origami_packages) folder with this file inside to Plug-ins folder

I think I have it installed as instructed but I don't see it in my "Window" drop-down in AE.
Here's a link to a screen shot I just took of my Plugins Folder
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxBo3nkR_bb3OFZTZVVVNXlzbXM

You have to copy Origami.jsx to scriptui panels folder, otherwise Origami will appear only in Effecrs

OK .... got it ... sorry!

John Kirksey

Nik,

this time I'm getting this message.  I only want now to test to see if I can generate the segments (masks) to individual layers to test Newton2.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxBo3nkR_bb3dTFqc3ZVLVViVTA

John Kirksey

Nik .... I figured it out.   I see you have to add a mask to the layer you want to break apart in to the individual masks, even if it is simply one that frames the outer edge of an image.
Once I did that it worked, and works well in Newton2 as well.

Nik Ska

John Kirksey said:

Nik .... I figured it out.   I see you have to add a mask to the layer you want to break apart in to the individual masks, even if it is simply one that frames the outer edge of an image.
Once I did that it worked, and works well in Newton2 as well.

Hey, John. Sorry I didn't mention this in the tutorial. For AE CC and below you have to add mask manually.

Christoph Heimer

I've installed it, but when I open it on my Mac from the windows menu, it just looks like this:

http://chfilm.de/download/origami.png

what am I doing wrong? I already tried to install it again, no success..

Nik Ska

Christoph Heimer said:

I've installed it, but when I open it on my Mac from the windows menu, it just looks like this:

http://chfilm.de/download/origami.png

what am I doing wrong? I already tried to install it again, no success..

Hi, Christoph. This is a really strange bug of our new framework. 

Please first open a composition then launch Origami.jsx. We're investigating this bug.

Christoph Heimer

Nik Ska said:

Christoph Heimer said:

I've installed it, but when I open it on my Mac from the windows menu, it just looks like this:

http://chfilm.de/download/origami.png

what am I doing wrong? I already tried to install it again, no success..

Hi, Christoph. This is a really strange bug of our new framework. 

Please first open a composition then launch Origami.jsx. We're investigating this bug.

Thank you! Now it works! Yes you should probably fix this

Christoph Heimer

How did you create these "outlines" in the promo video btw? 

Nik Ska

Christoph Heimer said:

How did you create these "outlines" in the promo video btw? 

We are actually making a series of advanced tutorials right now. You just create Shapes, select them and turn off Fill, then set Stroke color to one color and increase the width.

Christoph Heimer

Nik Ska said:

Christoph Heimer said:

How did you create these "outlines" in the promo video btw? 

We are actually making a series of advanced tutorials right now. You just create Shapes, select them and turn off Fill, then set Stroke color to one color and increase the width.

Oh, haha didnt think it was that simple thx!!!

Rebecca Collis

Origami was successfully installed, however it doesn't fully work! 

Selecting masks creates multiple layers but without colorisation. Selecting shape layers does create colourised layers but in both cases the control layer is labeled as !control and the parenting chain doesn't make its way to the control layer and therefore no animation is created - HELP

Nik Ska

Rebecca Collis said:

Origami was successfully installed, however it doesn't fully work! 

Selecting masks creates multiple layers but without colorisation. Selecting shape layers does create colourised layers but in both cases the control layer is labeled as !control and the parenting chain doesn't make its way to the control layer and therefore no animation is created - HELP

Hi, Rebecca. Would you please submit a support ticket with complete information on your system and AE version as well as a screencast/screenshots to determine the issue?

Declan Zimmermann

Playing around with the trial version. This is great.

Question: The "Shades of original color" slider in the settings tab seems disabled/locked. Is this a limitation of the trial version that will go away once licensed?

Thank you!

Nik Ska

Declan Zimmerman said:

Playing around with the trial version. This is great.

Question: The "Shades of original color" slider in the settings tab seems disabled/locked. Is this a limitation of the trial version that will go away once licensed?

Thank you!

Hi, Declan! Yes, this is the limitation of trial version.

Yeonjung Hong

Helllo, Ive just purchased the "Origami" Scripts. but I could see the message "Unable to execute script atline 75. Permission denied (is Preferences > General > Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network enabled?)"

than I can't use it.

Please, Let me know the solution about this. 

Thanks. T_T 

Nik Ska

Yeonjung Hong said:

Helllo, Ive just purchased the "Origami" Scripts. but I could see the message "Unable to execute script atline 75. Permission denied (is Preferences > General > Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network enabled?)"

than I can't use it.

Please, Let me know the solution about this. 

Thanks. T_T 

Please open Preferences - General and check "Allow scripts to.write filed and access network"

Ryan Taggart

Hi Nik, I love working with this so far. Thanks for putting together a great script. Any hints as to how far off in the future we might be able to see the ability to build a mesh from a shape with bezier curves? I could see a lot of applications for breaking up text or vector icons with curves. The ability to create a custom mesh would also be amazing.

Yeonjung Hong

Hi. Thanks for your quickly reply, but I have another problem.

I followed the tutorial . 

First select the image layer, than I set the Origami Plugin, But I saw the message "Select a shape layer or a layer with a mask" 

After that , Aftereffect made only a null layer.

How can I solve the problem?

Nik Ska

Yeonjung Hong said:

Hi. Thanks for your quickly reply, but I have another problem.

I followed the tutorial . 

First select the image layer, than I set the Origami Plugin, But I saw the message "Select a shape layer or a layer with a mask" 

After that , Aftereffect made only a null layer.

How can I solve the problem?

This means you're on AE CC or below. Please follow these instructions:

Or Efrima

Hello! I have just downloaded and installed the trial version of Origami. I'm super excited to use it and it would actually solve a lot of problems with my current project. However, I'm experiencing the same thing Rebecca Collis  was having....Did you two by any chance find out what was going on there?

I have AE CC 2015, windows 10 64bit.

Basically, it fragments the image / mask, but no animation is created and all the fragments are black...It indeed seems like the !control layer is disconnected from it all...when clicking on it I don't even have controls in the FX area like you had on the tutorial..

I'd love to get the trial working so I could see if it could indeed serve the purpose I'd like it to

Would really appreciate your help! Looks like a magnificent plugin!

Or

Nik Ska

Orr Efrima said:

Hello! I have just downloaded and installed the trial version of Origami. I'm super excited to use it and it would actually solve a lot of problems with my current project. However, I'm experiencing the same thing Rebecca Collis  was having....Did you two by any chance find out what was going on there?

I have AE CC 2015, windows 10 64bit.

Basically, it fragments the image / mask, but no animation is created and all the fragments are black...It indeed seems like the !control layer is disconnected from it all...when clicking on it I don't even have controls in the FX area like you had on the tutorial..

I'd love to get the trial working so I could see if it could indeed serve the purpose I'd like it to

Would really appreciate your help! Looks like a magnificent plugin!

Or

Please go to Preferences - General and enable "Allow scripts to write files and access network". This should make it work.

Or Efrima

Nik Ska said:

Hello! I have just downloaded and installed the trial version of Origami. I'm super excited to use it and it would actually solve a lot of problems with my current project. However, I'm experiencing the same thing Rebecca Collis  was having....Did you two by any chance find out what was going on there?

I have AE CC 2015, windows 10 64bit.
Basically, it fragments the image / mask, but no animation is created and all the fragments are black...It indeed seems like the !control layer is disconnected from it all...when clicking on it I don't even have controls in the FX area like you had on the tutorial..
I'd love to get the trial working so I could see if it could indeed serve the purpose I'd like it to
Would really appreciate your help! Looks like a magnificent plugin!
Or

Please go to Preferences - General and enable "Allow scripts to write files and access network". This should make it work. Brilliant! Thank you so much! Going to fiddle with it for a bit and most likely purchase later! The style of Origami's promo video is pretty close to what I was going for. Looking forward to the rest of the tutorials! Keep up the amazing work and super fast support

Erin Holt

Hi, I just installed Origami and allowed it in preferences, but when I try to apply the Effect to a layer inside my comp, nothing happens wen trying to create mesh or animate it. Am I missing something obvious? :-) Thanks!

Mas OS X running with AE CC 2015.

Nik Ska

Hi, I just installed Origami and allowed it in preferences, but when I try to apply the Effect to a layer inside my comp, nothing happens wen trying to create mesh or animate it. Am I missing something obvious? :-) Thanks!

Mas OS X running with AE CC 2015.

UPD. Sorry, Erin. There's been a bug in our latest release file. Please first add a mask to the layer (double-click "Rectangle Tool" – it will add a mask around the layer). Sorry for inconvenience, it's almost fixed already

Erin Holt

Nik Ska said:

Hi, I just installed Origami and allowed it in preferences, but when I try to apply the Effect to a layer inside my comp, nothing happens wen trying to create mesh or animate it. Am I missing something obvious? :-) Thanks!

Mas OS X running with AE CC 2015.

I can't understand what you're doing from the description. Please make sure you're doing everything as described in the tutorial, if that doesn't help, please submit a support ticket

Thank you for the quick response. I installed a trial version, so maybe that has something to do with it. I'm sticking to the Basic mode and trying to create the triangulation mesh (masks) on a .PNG image asset and animate it, but clicking the button yields no action. I followed the installation section for MacOS, and I made sure scripts were enabled in preferences.  The Origami does show up in Windows and Effects inside my AE. It just doesn't do anything when I click it to apply it to something. 

Nik Ska

Erin Holt said:

Nik Ska said:

Erin Holt said:

Hi, I just installed Origami and allowed it in preferences, but when I try to apply the Effect to a layer inside my comp, nothing happens wen trying to create mesh or animate it. Am I missing something obvious? :-) Thanks!

Mas OS X running with AE CC 2015.

I can't understand what you're doing from the description. Please make sure you're doing everything as described in the tutorial, if that doesn't help, please submit a support ticket

Thank you for the quick response. I installed a trial version, so maybe that has something to do with it. I'm sticking to the Basic mode and trying to create the triangulation mesh (masks) on a .PNG image asset and animate it, but clicking the button yields no action. I followed the installation section for MacOS, and I made sure scripts were enabled in preferences.  The Origami does show up in Windows and Effects inside my AE. It just doesn't do anything when I click it to apply it to something. 

UPD. Sorry, Erin. There's been a bug in our latest release file. Please first add a mask to the layer (double-click "Rectangle Tool" – it will add a mask around the layer). Sorry for inconvenience, it's almost fixed already

Christoph Heimer

Actually one more question - can you tell how you made the different pieces within your Origamis switch their respective colors all the time?

Like they're shining like this diamond and the illusion is created because they constantly change color and brightness... how did you achieve this? )

Nik Ska

Christoph Heimer said:

Actually one more question - can you tell how you made the different pieces within your Origamis switch their respective colors all the time?

Like they're shining like this diamond and the illusion is created because they constantly change color and brightness... how did you achieve this? )

We made a one layer shape, duplicated it a bunch of times and then recolored them with the same setting. Then we added opacity transitions.

Christoph Heimer

Oh wow, you mustve had sooooo many layers Thanks, thought there was an easier way! )

Nik Ska said:

Actually one more question - can you tell how you made the different pieces within your Origamis switch their respective colors all the time?

Like they're shining like this diamond and the illusion is created because they constantly change color and brightness... how did you achieve this? )

We made a one layer shape, duplicated it a bunch of times and then recolored them with the same setting. Then we added opacity transitions.

Erin Holt

@Nik Ska Re: BUG

Super, got it working! Now, I see your convo with John Kirksey and it makes sense. Thanks so much for the speedy response!

Christoph Heimer

it would be cool if you would make it so, that if multiple already broken layers are selected, and you hit "create mesh" again, they all get broken once again.

right now if you select multiple, only the first selection will get broken

Nik Ska

Christoph Heimer said:

it would be cool if you would make it so, that if multiple already broken layers are selected, and you hit "create mesh" again, they all get broken once again.

right now if you select multiple, only the first selection will get broken

Hey,Christoph! Cool idea. Will definitelydo it for the next update

mark owen

Hi Nik,

really excited by origami - bought it this evening but can't seem to get it working/installed properly

the panel shows but it is empty and I can't launch it - any thoughts?

many thanks

mark

Nik Ska

mark owen said:

Hi Nik,

really excited by origami - bought it this evening but can't seem to get it working/installed properly

the panel shows but it is empty and I can't launch it - any thoughts?

many thanks

mark

Hi, Mark. Please open a composition first and then launch Origami. This is the bug, we're working on it

mark owen

got it - many thanks

good luck with the update!!

mark

Krystyna Kwiatkowska

Hi,

for me the script doesn't work. It says: 

"Unable to execute the script on line 148. Unable to create temp. image file".

"AEGP Plugin Origami: Unable to create temp. image file"

Mac, AE CS6, allowed Scripts to write files…

Pls Help, thanx