Text expression random wiggLe per character

Dan Ebberts
April 28, 2020 at 6:37 am

Try this: Add a position Animator to the text and set the y position value to the negative number that represents the maximum amount that you want the letters to move upwards. Add an expression Selector and apply this expression to its Amount property:

freq = 1;
seedRandom(textIndex,true);
50 + wiggle(freq,50)-value;

Set the freq value to how fast you want the wiggles to occur (wiggles per second).

Dan
Andrei Popa
April 28, 2020 at 6:57 am

I am just curious. What happend to your lowercase L? 😀

Andrei
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Carlos Bautista
April 28, 2020 at 8:08 am

Got it, Dan! Animation Looks nice.

Thanks you very much~
Carlos Bautista
April 28, 2020 at 8:14 am

It’s kinda of a trademark. There’s a coupLe of “L” words that are cLose to heart. : )
Michel Dani
December 19, 2021 at 12:10 am

Thanks Dan.

I just used this expression to make a “scribbly” hand written type, but I added a rotation animator and it worked like a charm!

But can you explain why you set the 50s in the third line of the expression for future reference?

Thanks again
Dan Ebberts
December 19, 2021 at 1:38 am
I think that was an attempt to keep the text in the range defined by the original base line and the maximum upward y amount, but I think I got it wrong–it should have been like this:
```
freq = 1;
seedRandom(textIndex,true);
[0,50] + wiggle(freq,50)-value;
```

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