Expression Library Guide
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  • Creating An Expression Library Item
    • Expression Library Info
    • Selection
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      • Layer Selection
    • Including Keyframes
    • 3D or 2D Layer
    • Javascript or Extendscript
    • Naming Your Expression
  • Adding Custom Controls
    • thisLayer & Master Layers
    • Custom Functions
      • addMaster()
      • add3DPointControl()
      • add2DPointControl()
      • addColorControl()
      • addCheckboxControl()
      • addSliderControl()
      • addAngleControl()
      • addLayerControl()
    • Combining Custom Controls
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    • Installing The Script
      • Install As A Script Panel
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  1. Creating An Expression Library Item

Naming Your Expression

The age old question. What do I name this expression? Well you can name it anything you like as it's going to be added to it's own unquie node so the name can literally be anything you like. However I have come up with a simple method that I like to use with naming expression and this is how it works:

Expression Naming Method

<action> <value>

If we had an expression on the position property that allowed us to adjust the position by an X and Y slider I would write something like this

Adjust XY sliders

The Adjust is the action, the XY sliders is the value. However this doesn't work in every case but it defintly makes things a lot neater.

Making a naming convention and always following it will help you in the long run.

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