• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  New Text Styling + Old Expression?

  Posted by Michael Szabo on March 22, 2020 at 2:22 pm

  Hello,

  I recently started writing with the new expressions in AE2020 where you can access font styles. I want to pull font styling from either text sources or from controllers elsewhere in my project probably a combination of both, and apply it to a text source generated by an expression.

  I made a simple ranger mapper using the linear expression that also rounds down as a floor. The expression works. If I combine it with a previous part of the project where I linked the text styling (that also works) between two layers, the layer doesn’t work. They work separately but not when combined onto the same sourceText field. I’m not sure why, can anyone give me a hand it understanding this and the solution? Thanks for the help.

  thisComp.layer("FONT SOURCE").text.sourceText.style

  input = thisComp.layer("SLIDER CONTROLS").effect("ANIMATION")("Slider");
  inputLow = 0;
  inputHigh = 100;
  outputLow = 0;
  outputHigh = thisComp.layer("SLIDER CONTROLS").effect("VALUE")("Slider");

  Math.floor(linear(input,inputLow,inputHigh,outputLow,outputHigh))


  Michael Szabo replied 6 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Andrei Popa

  March 24, 2020 at 10:04 am

  To use a text generated by expressions, you need to use the .setText() function. I think this will fit your situation:

  style = thisComp.layer("FONT SOURCE").text.sourceText.style;

  input = thisComp.layer("SLIDER CONTROLS").effect("ANIMATION")("Slider");
  inputLow = 0;
  inputHigh = 100;
  outputLow = 0;
  outputHigh = thisComp.layer("SLIDER CONTROLS").effect("VALUE")("Slider");

  myText = Math.floor(linear(input,inputLow,inputHigh,outputLow,outputHigh));
style.setText(myText)

  Andrei
  My Envato portfolio.
• 

  Michael Szabo

  March 25, 2020 at 12:09 pm

  Yes I think that SetTExt was what I need to look into, thanks for the help

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up