a text list on a vertical path?

[Michael Szalapski]

I’m not sure what you’re trying to do. Your description didn’t quite paint in my head exactly what you’re after.
Perhaps you should try sketching it up in Photoshop.

Taking a guess as to a direction to point you however: You might try adding a text animator and playing with the rotation.

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[Fred Gates]

Ok,

A is what I want to do
B is how i thought it should be possible
C is what happens when you apply the mask as a path. and there does not seem to be a way to effect a list of text using a vertical rather than a horizontal path.

cheers

Jim

[John Cuevas]

This is how I would do this. You need your text set up so they are on seperate lines in the text block. Add an opacity animator, set it to subtract and make the opacity 0. Change the Units to “Index” and Based On to “Lines”. Add and expression to Start “index -1” and to End “index”. Now duplicate your text layer until all lines of text are on it.

Create a null and move it to where you would have your circle center. Parent all the text to null, except the first layer and change the null rotation by say 5 degrees. Now unparent the 2nd line and repeat until you do this for every line of text. Now parent everything back to the null and animate the rotation property.

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[Fred Gates]

That’s a bit of a heavy duty work around:)
If you where going to go the seperate layers route and do it by hand you could just offset the anchor point of each layer and rotate them to get the circle then group with a null to animate.

Thanks for your reply.

[John Cuevas]

You’re right that was some extra work with the parenting unparenting…

But in the same vein(using the index trick to isolate one line of text), you could set up the first layer, like before. Offset the anchor point to circle radius. Then add an expression to rotatation “index*3” Then duplicate the layers. Then you just need a null to animate them.

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[John Cuevas]

Actually had one more suggestion. Instead of a expression to rotation “index * ???” Create a null object first and add a angle slider control. Then add your expression to rotation “index *thisComp.layer(“Control”).effect(“Angle Control”)(1)”

Then after you duplicate the layer, you adjust the angle control to change the spacing/angle of the layers from each other.

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[Fred Gates]

Thanks again,

As this was mid Job I just went ahead and did by hand, I was just surprised that it wasn’t possible to control a block of text with a mask vertically.

it seems so obvious.

anyway thanks again next time I’ll try that expression 🙂

cheers