Anchor Point based on the character index

[Brendon Murphy]

There may be a more elegant solution, but this will get you there:

textWidth = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime().width;

numLetters = thisLayer.text.sourceText.length;

characterWidth = textWidth/numLetters;

charIndex = 2;//this is the index of the letter you want

horizAnchor = (value[0])+(characterWidth*charIndex)-(characterWidth*.5);

verticalAnchor = value[1];

[horizAnchor,verticalAnchor];

[Brendon Murphy]

Note that the above expression is for changing the text’s anchor point to the second character. If you want to change the anchor point of another layer to be at the second character, it’s like this:

textLayer = thisComp.layer(“CHARACTER”);

textWidth = textLayer.sourceRectAtTime().width;

numLetters = textLayer.text.sourceText.length;

characterWidth = textWidth/numLetters;

charIndex = 2;

horizAnchor = (textLayer.transform.position[0]-textLayer.transform.anchorPoint[0])+(characterWidth*charIndex)-(characterWidth*.5);

verticalAnchor = textLayer.transform.position[1]-textLayer.transform.anchorPoint[1];

[horizAnchor,verticalAnchor];

[Tommi Rahko]

Thanks a bunch. Seems to work great 🙂