• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Styles for dynamic SourceText

  Posted by Dmitry Volkov on June 26, 2021 at 6:28 pm

  Is it possible to apply any text style AFTER creating text.sourceText using expression? For example, when I use in same layer:

  1. text.sourceText = any_function_like_concat(t1, t2);

  2. style.setTracking(-100);

  second string doesn’t work. If I manually pre-assign any value to “sourceText” then second string will apply to that value, the first line is completely ignored. If I delete second string then first string work correctly.

  Help, please. I need to generate text string and if its width is too large, I must change tracking and font size. I can’t know width of string before creating and can’t apply any style after it 🙁

  Andrei Popa replied 5 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Andrei Popa

  June 27, 2021 at 6:21 am

  You need to assign the text the same way as the tracking. Instead of your two lines, you can use this

  style.setTracking(-100).setText(any_function_like_concat(t1, t2));
  

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