• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  style.setFont not working with toString

  Posted by Ayush Tanna on August 14, 2020 at 8:04 pm

  Hi,
  I was trying something out by taking the rgb values from an image and changing the color of the text layer to that color. I am also taking the hex code of that color and displaying as text in the same text layer. But when I try to add other fonts using the setFont feature introduced in v17 it stays the same. I can still change the font from the character panel though.

  Any help is appreciated.

  Thanks in advance
  Ayush

  var array = [
"Metropolis-Regular",
"Didot-Bold",
"Roboto-BoldCondensed"
];

  text.sourceText.style.setFont(array[1])

  r = Math.round(text.animator("Animator 1").property.fillColor[0]*255).toString(16);
  if (r.length < 2) r = "0" + r;
  g = Math.round(text.animator("Animator 1").property.fillColor[1]*255).toString(16);
  if (g.length < 2) g = "0" + g;
  b = Math.round(text.animator("Animator 1").property.fillColor[2]*255).toString(16);
  if (b.length < 2) b = "0" + b;

  '#' + r + g + b;


  Ayush Tanna replied 6 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Andrei Popa

  August 15, 2020 at 6:25 am

  Try this

  
var array = [
"Metropolis-Regular",
"Didot-Bold",
"Roboto-BoldCondensed"
];

  r = Math.round(text.animator("Animator 1").property.fillColor[0]*255).toString(16);
  if (r.length < 2) r = "0" + r;
  g = Math.round(text.animator("Animator 1").property.fillColor[1]*255).toString(16);
  if (g.length < 2) g = "0" + g;
  b = Math.round(text.animator("Animator 1").property.fillColor[2]*255).toString(16);
  if (b.length < 2) b = "0" + b;

  text.sourceText.style.setFont(array[1]).setText('#' + r + g + b);


  Andrei
  My Envato portfolio.
• 

  Ayush Tanna

  August 15, 2020 at 6:52 am

  Hi, Andrei

  Thanks so much for this. It works perfectly!

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