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how do i get text to have every letter be a random colour from a selection of 3 colours?
i have text on screen that is typed in after effects. I would like it to appear that each letter is randomly one of 3 colours. i was doing this manually by selecting each letter and change the colour to one of the 3 preselected colours, but i thought that there has got to be an expression to do this. Any ideas?
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4 Replies
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Try this. Use black text and add a Fill Color animator and set its color to white. Add an Expression Selector, and delete the Range Selector. Add this expression to the Expression Selector’s Amount property:
colorArray = [[1,0,0],[0,1,0],[0,0,1]];
seedRandom(textIndex,true);
colorArray[Math.floor(random(colorArray.length))]*100That should give you a random selection of the three colors specified in colorArray (red, green, and blue in this example).
Dan
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Nice one dan! really great! my only question is how do I put rgb values into that? it seems in the first line, a “1” sets it to full 255 for that channel.
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Color values in expressions range from 0.0 to 1.0
so, for example, you could represent medium gray like this:
[.5,.5,.5]
or like this:
[127,127,127]/255
Dan
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aahhhh, that makes sense. now it all works fine. thanks so much!
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