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Advanced Text Questions
I was wondering if its possible to do two different things for text:
1. Can I set an expression for text so that they text reads the position of another layer. Like link it to a null object and the text reads out the coordinates of the null object?
2. Can I set some text so that from one keyframe to another it counts in the text? I want some text next to an angle that opens and I want to have the text read out the changing angle as the angle opens. Like it counts up, including decimal places.
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[Jordan Montreuil] “1. Can I set an expression for text so that they text reads the position of another layer. Like link it to a null object and the text reads out the coordinates of the null object?
2. Can I set some text so that from one keyframe to another it counts in the text? I want some text next to an angle that opens and I want to have the text read out the changing angle as the angle opens. Like it counts up, including decimal places.”
All this requires is a simple pickwhip from the ‘Source Text’ property of the text layer to the property you want it to ‘read.’
You can do more complex things with the data once you have it, such as limiting a number to 2 decimal places (multiply by 100, use Math.round() on the value then divide by 100).
Darby Edelen
NVIDIA
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thanks
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