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Character count and Frames
Hi there…
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I am animating the text on using a range selector. I am making it so the text reveals at 1 character per frame.
Using this “thisComp.layer(“text”).text.sourceText.length”
I am able to count the characters and put the key frames a corresponding distance apart ..but what I would really like to do is have the character count (excluding spaces (it animates nicer that way) ) be used to drive an expression .. rather than just telling me.
So it would be . ,, Take the charactrs count (excluding spaces) and finish the animation on the range selector this number of frames up the time line.
Am I explaining this very well ??
Hope so ..
Thanks
Chris
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12 Replies
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I’d use an expression selector with an amount expression like this:
if (timeToFrames(time-inPoint) > textIndex) 0 else 100
Dan
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Hummm
not sure I understand
what is an expression selector ?
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ha ha
google is my friend …
thanks for the help and i’ll be back 🙂
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Ha ha
you beauty .. Never even seen expression selectors hidden way down there. ….
brilliant , thanks very much
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How would I make it so the characters come in every 2 frames for example ?
I have them coming in at ten frames now but am just experimenting with it.
Its very cool -
if (Math.floor(timeToFrames(time-inPoint)/2) > textIndex) 0 else 100
Dan
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blimey…
now you are just confusing me …
One last thing .. Now I have my text writing on simply , beautifully and repeatable with little effort ..
Using range selectors and duplicate layer above with the blending made set to add i am able to make the leading letters write on with a glow..
As the range selector write the other writes off so the first character only is displayed giving a pleaseing glow to the lead character…
I have tried to do it by manipulating what you sent but succeeded in writing off .. not on..
Any more tip s ??
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How can I make this expression ease out?
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I think something like this would work:
framesPerChar = 3; // frames per character
t = time – inPoint;
tStart = framesToTime(framesPerChar)*(textIndex-1);
tEnd = framesToTime(framesPerChar)*textIndex;
ease(t,tStart,tEnd,100,0)Dan
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Hmm, doesn’t seem to work. It still goes one character per frames (set it as that) even as it’s approaching the end.
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