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Animate text (typewriter style) with persistent last character
I am working in AE CS6 trying to achieve something that I *think* should be fairly simple to do, but my math or abstract thinking is off today. I have a sentence (a question) that I want to animate in, typewriter-style, and want to start by showing the question mark and have the question mark persist as the characters are typed out. e.g.:
?
H?
Ho?
How?
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How can I get this question mark to constantly remain at the end?I’ve tried using the Range Selector and Character Value property, but I have to crack up the smoothness of the range selector to see the upcoming character (and even then it’s not at 100% opacity) and Character Value seems to behave like an offset, not a constant value – giving me seemingly random characters, not a constant one.
I did see some discussions about Panopticum AnimaText. I’d prefer to get this to work without purchasing a plug-in, but will if needed.
Thanks for looking!
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Have you tried using the Word Processor preset? Just delete the ” Animator – (Cursor Blink)” and change the character offset to be a question mark instead of an underscore(63).
Here’s a quick example project: 6121_wordprocessorcs5.5.aep.zip
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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That works nicely. Thank you. One follow-up question: is it possible to have the offset character still appear animator encounters a space? I tried adding a non-breaking space (opt+space on a Mac) but that didn’t seem to help?
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You can select based on “characters excluding spaces” under the advanced roll down for all three variables (cursor, Cursor Blink and Reveal)
This will keep a ? on screen at all times but it will jump the spaces.
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― Albert Einstein
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