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Setting up an editable paragraph that will recognise the final line and word
Hi guys, I have spent all day on this and have very little knowledge of expressions or scripting so would appreciate any help!
Iam setting up an editable chunk of text in AE that needs to be handed over to a client so they can change the source text to whatever they want.
However the animation needs to recognise the lines individually, to each float up inside an alpha matte line by line, and needs to recognise the final line to type in slower per character, as well as the final word, in order to perform the same animation presets for whatever they want it to say.
The final word also has a double layer to it, which I am sure I can figure out if everything else has been sorted.
Currently my colleage helped with this code attached – that is for a simpler animation that just effects the last letter but is linked to source text and also uses the offset from the typewriter preset.
Sorry if this is a jumble, and would very much appreciate any help! thank you
Lauren
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Hi Lauren, I’m not entirely sure what stuff needs to be animated and how (for example, floating inside an alpha matte ?).
But hope this helps:
Adding this expression on a textlayer, tells you how many visible lines that textlayer has wrapped to:
h=sourceRectAtTime().height;
st=text.sourceText.style;
ld = st.autoLeading ? st.fontSize*1.2 : st.leading;
numLines = Math.round(h/ld);You can then maybe use that number in your textanimators based on lines.
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And this expression gives you the number of words in your sourceText.
text.sourceText.split(/\s+/).length-1;
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