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How to generate thousands of letters ?
Hello amigos. Im working with flying letters and I want to generate a lot of letters and give differents movements. Is there an expression to generate, and not need to type and type ?
thank you in andvance and please tell me if Im asking and wanting too much without use my knowledge. I just starting in expression
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Here is some Dan stuff on expressions for text:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ebberts_dan/ae6_exp.php
See the section named “Text” about half way down.
The following expression was hacked from that page, it needs to be put on The Source Text of a Text layer. It will generate a random letter between a to Z. (Copy the expression, Alt Click the Source Text Stopwatch, then Paste)
seedRandom(0,true);
c = Math.floor(random(65,92));
String.fromCharCode(c)Then if you duplicate that text layer it will generate a new and different letter.
What are you trying to do exactly. It sounds like it might be a job for a particle generator or AE’s native Text Animator (my big weak spot)?
Also there is a script that will take text from a .txt file and make a layer for each line. So if you had one letter per line it would generate as many letters as you have line of letters (I’m still thinking you want single letters, so put only one letter per line). The script is named, “crg_Text_from_File.jsx”. Unzip it and drop the jsx file into you Scripts folder. Then File>Run Script and select that script. You can download it, here:
https://www.crgreen.com/aescripts/
When you run the script, don’t check the “One Layer” box, and it will give you a new layer for each line. This is a great script for turning a list of names into a layer for each name. I don’t know how many letters/lines it will take before it gags After Effects. Like I said this may just be a job for AE’s Text Animators (like the presets).
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MI amigo thank you for take your time and give all this explanations. Muchas Gracias.
The idea, in a starting, It s fonts ( de-attached ?) from advertisings, and following a man who is walking for the street of my city, flying, rotating, gentle, and thousands met in the sky like bees. I saw it in youtube, from an Austrian producer, but I can{t find it again !! So you right..I want single fonts, not words ( forgive my english again)
Now I will start to try the expression and the script that you give to me.
Muchisimas gracias desde la Patagonia !!!
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the path text effect has jitter settings that will allow you to animate per character movement… with pretty extreme settings the movement is pretty swarm-like. it also allows comp motion blur.
you would how ever need to generate your onw random letter using the keyboard.
Kevin Camp
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Thank you amigo for the tip !! Will try it too !!
gracias !!
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