How to resize without distort

Thank you so so much!
I can not explain how much you've just helped me!
Appreciate it!

Thanks a lot for the tutorial, needed some refreshing on the topic. This is what you can use on your Rectangle 1 position (not transform) to auto reposition where your layer originally was:
box_width = thisComp.layer("YOUR_LAYER_NAME").sourceRectAtTime(0).width; box_height = thisComp.layer("YOUR_LAYER_NAME").sourceRectAtTime(0).height; [box_width/2, box_height/-2]

hi

this is a very helpful video and I can finally resize rectangular shapes as i want. thank you !!!!!!!

really helpful and explicit.
thanks

that was so helpful thanks alot 🙌🙏

i love you

Thanks a lot ♥

there s no size in rectangle path1

Doesn't work

Can someone help? I don't have the Size, Position and Roundness properties. Mine only says Rectangle 1. Any help?

every few months I need to come back to this tutorial because I keep forgetting how to do this, but always look for this one, because I kinda got attached to it <3

What an intuitive way. XD Can't believe in 2023 Adobe still has softwares with features like this.

Can you resize a Solid layer without Scale enlargement?

Thanks bro. I was creating two "ends" and using masks to lengthen and shorten my bars. This is a lot, lot faster and easier.

Tks sir. I love the way you use pop-up bubbles to show the detail of comp panel, I can see it clearly not take time open fullscreen

already cringing

"Expression result must be of dimension 2, not 1" - didn't work...

is there another way to type the expression? it's not recognizing the box width

Yes adobe, that's really user friendly and intuitive, too bad resizing things and not deforming it is one thing we not at all do all the time.

Thanks a Lot🙂

Thank you so much. This is exactly what I am looking for.

hi how can I make it appear from the top to bottom? like what values do I have to enter in box_width and box_height

Merci !

thanks bro, this help me lot

Cheers mate. I couldn't for the life of me work out the expression. Appreciate the short video.

Hi i want to scale right side of the rectangle then scale left side...how we can do it

hi how to scale both left side and right side of a rectangle one after one. any idea

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I'm trying to do the same thing but with a 6 point hexagon but i'm getting an error of "Cannot read property of [0]" of undefined. I've tried changing the numbers but regardless of the number I still get the error. Any ideas on how to fix this?

THANK YOU

You are a live saver sir :)

Finally this is exactly what I've been looking for. Is there any way we could just edit the shape just like in Illustrator by just dragging corners and such?

Great tutorial! Is there a way to make the anchor point the center/top of the rectangle, so it can grown from the center/top down?

Just removing the stroke from the shape itself and adding the stroke as a Layer Style works as well, since the stroke is being applied AFTER the transformations. Layer Styles are very underrated in AE and a lot of designers forget about it's existence lol. I always look for other solutions before using expressions as a last resort. I had to do the layer style method instead for multiple lower thirds that included long names. Hope it helps y'all, too!

Syntax error unexpcted token . this project cntains an expression error 1 of 1. please help

Thanks man! you just saved me 😁✌

You are soooo underrated man.

Thank you very much, i spended on this shit for 3 hours

You don't need to rotate the shape to change directions of the animation. Change the box_width to be /-2 for left to right or /2 for right to left

Left to Right:
[box_width/-2, box_height/-2]

Right to Left:
[box_width/2, box_height/-2]

I have a syntax error with the code :(

i like your tutorial... thanks for this information

This is very helpful. Thanks a lot for the tip.