animating text with expression selector

[Marcus Labola]

Hey everyone,

I am trying to animate the color of a text with a text animator using an expression selector.

I simply added an animated slider value to the default expression selectors value, which gives me the desired animation.
ofs = effect("offset")("Slider");
selectorValue * textIndex/textTotal + ofs
This is actually exactly what I want, it’s working perfect, but only for the color red (1, 0, 0). As soon as I change the color to blue for example, the offset doesn’t work anymore.

I would like to generate the same animation, but with a different color, using the fill color property.

Any help is appreciated.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Marcus – this is definitely not related to the color value itself, it should work independently from what color is applied. Look for other flaws/mismatches in the setup, or share .aep for inspection.

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