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Any way to select EVERY OTHER character with a text animator?
Let’s say I want to use a text animator to make EVERY OTHER bigger.
Can this be done with the range selectors?
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HA! Well, yes, you can do it “manually” with a separate selector for each character.
But I was hoping for a more ‘automatic’ way that would handle any length of text.
Kinda like a “square wave” selector…
I guess I could just create 50 selectors … maybe with an expression to “add 2” to the offset from the one above … just gets kinda messy. -
The original post did not mention ‘automatic’. It took me less than a minute to do manually.
I imagine a script could be written to automate the process, or it can be set up once and saved as an animation preset.
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you could do it like this
e e y t e on one text and
v r o h r on a second text -
you can add an expression selector to the animator (from the add menu to the right of the animator) and use an expression like this:
textIndex%2 ? 100 : 0
if the ‘based on’ value is set to characters, every other character should be affected.
Kevin Camp
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OH. MY. GOD.
“Expression Selector” ?!?!?!?!!??!
How did I never see that!?!?!
You, sir, just changed my life.
You da man! -
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I can’t really take full credit for this one.
I had come accross that expresson in the expressions forum some time ago and made a note of it as an example of how to manipulate the expression selector (which is someting I haven’t had time to fully learn, but i’m getting better….)
Kevin Camp
Art Director
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I came across this while looking for something. Sorry to drudge up an old thread, but I just made a tutorial last week that contains how to do this.
https://workbench.tv/tutorials/2016-09-02_ExpressionSelectorIntro/
The relevant bit is around 3:07. To switch whether it’s alternating characters or lines just change the “Based On setting.” You can download the file at the bottom of the post as well.
Joe Clay
Workbench.tv
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