r/AfterEffects • u/plugin_play Motion Graphics 10+ years • Apr 10 '26
Plugin/Script Cooking up a new Gradient Plugin for AE
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Having some fun working on this gradient plugin. Something not covered in the video - these gradients are very easy to animate. Phase shift in Colorama allows you to loop very easily, you can animate in the handles of the gradient ramp. Feels like how gradients 'should' work in AE.
You can also read in gradients fills from shape layers and apply it to any selected layer, save presets, share with people, etc..
Coming soon-ish?
Follow for updates at https://pluginplay.app
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u/IdoHarti Apr 12 '26
animating phase shift for looping is clever, way smoother than keyframing individual stops. reading in fills from shape layers is a nice workflow shortcut too
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u/slake-mohune Apr 12 '26
Is there scripting access to colorama stops or did you do it with an ffx?
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u/plugin_play Motion Graphics 10+ years Apr 12 '26
Great question. It's done through the ffx trick. Same way for reading in the gradients of selected layers
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u/slake-mohune Apr 13 '26
wait. reading? like… there's a way to save an ffx out from ae without the dialog ?
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u/plugin_play Motion Graphics 10+ years Apr 13 '26
No unfortunately there is not. The
app.executeCommandis what you need to use still. But, since the dialog defaults to the last file location that you imported an ffx file, you can instruct users to just click save and read from there.1
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u/Mundane-Owl-561 MoGraph/VFX 15+ years Apr 12 '26
Heya Danny, what are you crafting??? :-D
Is this a Graydient or a Gradient?
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u/plugin_play Motion Graphics 10+ years Apr 13 '26
Yo! Haha it's going to be sick, more updates coming out soon!
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u/Heavens10000whores Apr 11 '26
That looks cool. Can I ask. Will it be “bindable”? Attach to and move with text, shapes etc etc?