• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Copy Text Using Expressions

  Posted by Niels Otto on January 14, 2020 at 11:33 am

  Hi
  I’m trying to copy the source text of one layer, and making it into a wall of that name as a background element. I want to use expression to copy the text, to make it dynamic.

  I put the following code in as an expression on the source text of a “copy” layer, trying to copy the “Name” layer using a for loop:
  name = thisComp.layer("Name").text.sourceText
for(i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
name = name + "\r" + name
}

  Which gives me this:
  

  My goal is this:
  

  Any help is appreciated

  Thanks

  name = thisComp.layer("Name").text.sourceText
for(i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
name = name + "\r" + name
}

  Niels Otto replied 6 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Andrei Popa

  January 14, 2020 at 1:29 pm

  I don’t know of a better way than this. First is columns and second is rows

  (repeat(4)+"\n").repeat(3)

  Andrei
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• 

  Niels Otto

  January 14, 2020 at 3:18 pm

  This worked perfectly. Thank you!

  I ended up doing
  name = thisComp.layer("Name").text.sourceText + " ";
(name.repeat(150)+"\n").repeat(60);

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