aescripts + aeplugins

Thank you for the feedback, Miika!
What do you mean with "grid controls"? The grid parameters will show up in the Effect controls:

Hi Koen,
since Ae only supports horizontal and vertical guides, all grid lines that are not horizontal or vertical are ignored when converting grids to guides. By default (you can disable this in the GridGuide settings) GridGuide also aligns to the edges of the comp, hence it also creates guides for those when converting grids to guides.

Maybe I should think about a meaningful error/warning message that makes this more clean in cases where you try to convert grids to guides and have rotated grids.

In general, if you need rotated grids, your only option is to use GridGuide's alignment toolbar, unless Adobe extends their support for native guide lines to rotated lines.

Cheers,
Mathias

Hi Olivier,

no, currently the Auto Layout tries to minimize the overall size change but cannot add priorities for individual layers. This is an interesting feature request. I will think about whether there is an easy way to extend it that way.

Cheers,
Mathias

Olivier Cefai said:

Hi Mathias,

I'm wondering if there is a way to "lock" the resizing of some layers when building an auto layout. Say you've got 6 layers to work with but you want to ensure than one of them do not get resized in the process (and thus have others resize accordingly). Is that possible?

Thanks,

Olivier

GridGuide can align the bounding boxes of text layers (but not the baseline).
It cannot deal with 3D layers.

Jesse Gammage said: Will Grid Guide recognize and align 3D Layers and Text?

Thanks,
Jesse

Haitian Yan said:

Can it allign a single node point on a mask or a shape path?

The build-in align to grid feature can align layer bounding boxes and anchor points, but no mask or shape points. But when you create guide lines using the "Convert Grids to Guides" feature, you can use the shape point snapping of AE guides: When moving shapes or invividual shape points, it will snap the point you clicked on to the guides (but only the one you clicked on, even if you have several points selected).

Hi Austin,
could you please open a support ticket here and explain the behavior in more detail?
https://aescripts.com/contact/

Actually, I've never heard anybody reporting such a behavior and I have no good idea what you mean with "these other precomps from other projects". Maybe you can attach your project or at least some screenshots to the support ticket? The more details I know the better and quicker I will be able to help.

Cheers,
Mathias

AUSTIN HILL said:

When I click the convert to guides button it does some really weird stuff.  It creates all these other precomps from other projects in the project panel and generally just doesn't work.  I'm on CC 2017. 

Hi Austin,
ok, good to hear that the issue is solved and thank you for clarifying this :-)

AUSTIN HILL said:

Hi Mathica, 

I don't really see a way to respond directly to your response regarding my issue and I haven't opened a ticket because for the life of me I can't replicate what the plugin was doing last night...which makes me think it was either user error OR something to do with re-booting my computer.  I followed along precisely to your isometric tutorial and everything is working fine...so I don't really know what was happening previously.  If indeed it wasn't my fault I will do my best to document the behaviour again and open a ticket.  Thanks for the quick reply and the plugin is very cool!

thanks!

Ryan Pohanic said:

One of the most useful scripts I've ever used--thanks so much for creating this!!!

Chris Marriott said:

Hi Mathias,

Just in case anyone else is missing a Preset option and having to type in multiple types of guides on each project. As there isn't a preset menu in the script if you create the Guide, instead save your guides as effect pre-sets.

So what I have done is create a folder in my effects & Presets panel with different guides for different projects. 

The way to Apply your pre-sets without breaking the Guide controls is -

1 - Create a new Grid Guide

2 - Apply your Preset to the effects stack of the guide layer. Do not delete the Existing Effect first - this breaks the script links.

3 - Once you have stacked your pre-set just remove the default generated one and the guide will update using your settings.

Sorted No if I can just think of a way to make a Kbar/Ft-Toolbar automation to do this in a single step

Do you have a thought Mathias to just get this little preset route to be a little quicker? it's not too bad bad but would avoid the need to make extra UI clutter so this might be a little quick idea to add to an FAQ for creating multiple Guide styles.

Cheers

Chris

David Oulashian said:

You are right about the anchor point. Thanks for clarifying.

Here is an example of the issue I am having:

(sorry I can't figure out how to insert a picture)_

 Type "are young ugly and stupid" each word as a separate text layer same font sizes. Line the text up like a sentence but with some slight variation in Y position.

When I hit coarser grid or finer grid it either mis-aligns them so they are not on the same Y position or puts them on the same Y but then changes the scale of each one...

for me, it looks like this

David Oulashian said:

Thanks man, I appreciate your comments. By the way, I don't see any "attach a file" feature. I see "insert an image" but that just asks for a url... am I blind to the obvious?

David Oulashian said:

I don't have either of those options (attach file, Back to Discussions)...

I show you a screen shot but.... 

Reset your browser cookies/cache or use a different browser or an incognito window and make sure you are using a desktop. But better yet, please open a support ticket for assistance https://aescripts.com/contact/?direct=1

Patricia Pilz said:

Hi. Do you have an estimate when GridGuide will be updated to work on AE 2022, please? Many thanks.