• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Wiggle the String/Number in a Text Layer

  Posted by Nawaz Alamgir on June 4, 2020 at 3:45 pm

  Hi

  I’m trying to write an expression that can animate the number in a text layer without parenting to a slider.

  so if i have a number in a text layer say 4000, i want to add a wiggle to it.
  I’ve managed to animate using time parseFloat(text.sourceText)+time*100 but can’t seen to crack how to wiggle it!

  Can help would be great, thank you.

  Nawaz Alamgir replied 5 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dan Ebberts

  June 4, 2020 at 4:12 pm

  You can just borrow a convenient property, like rotation, wiggle that, then subtract out its value:

  parseFloat(text.sourceText)+ rotation.wiggle(1,100) – rotation

  Dan
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  Nawaz Alamgir

  June 4, 2020 at 9:13 pm

  As usual, Dan is the man.

  Thank you, works for me!

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