Scripting Sample: Convex Hull

On my AE expression blog, I broke down an expression that creates a dynamic minimum wrapping shape around a set of ‘point’ layers. I mention in that post the use of a script to populate an array (or rather, the expression string that defines an array), and auto-generate a layer with a shape that has

The need for a launcher.

(Apologies in advance for this not being a tutorial. Here’s a link to download my launcher to dissect.) If you’ve dabbled in After Effects scripting, you know how messy your File > Scripts… and Window menus can get with all those .jsx listings. Those one-off scripts you write and load into AE really stack up.