Control Text Repeater with sliders

[Dan Ebberts]

I think the last line should be:

vertRepeat.repeat(yRepeater);

Dan

[Fabian Bosman]

Thanks Dan I got it working.

I have another question, is it also possible to have the repeater effect and also
link the source text of the repeater to another text layer?

So when I adjust the text in the other (non repeat) text layer, it will also change the repeater text layer.

I hope it makes sense ☺

Fabian

[Dan Ebberts]

Sure–something like this:

txt = thisComp.layer(“Text”).text.sourceText.value;
xRepeater = effect(“X Repeater”)(“Slider”).value;
yRepeater = effect(“Y Repeater”)(“Slider”).value;
horzRepeat = txt.repeat(xRepeater);
vertRepeat = horzRepeat + “\n”;
vertRepeat.repeat(yRepeater);

Dan

[Fabian Bosman]

Man, you know everything ☺ Thank you so much for the help.
It is exactly what I was looking for!

[Fabian Bosman]

Hi Dan,

Do you know if it is also possible to use this duplicate effect but then from the middle outwards?
Now it repeats from the top-left corner.

What would be the code for that?
I’m new to the expression language and I’m trying to learn it.

I hope you can help.

Greetz,
Fabian

[Dan Ebberts]

What would the result of that look like?

Dan

[Fabian Bosman]

Something similar like this

Around 0:20 sec in the video you see the Line spacing change from the cente to outwards
https://previews.customer.envatousercontent.com/h264-video-previews/b4f79446-4294-479a-bf2a-e559540184a9/23403987.mp4

Please let me know your thoughts about how to create this effect.

Greetz
Fabian

[Dan Ebberts]

I don’t think you’re going to be able to do anything like that using JavaScript’s string.repeat() function.

Dan

[Fabian Bosman]

It doesn’t have to be with the string.repeat() function.
If there is another way to repeat text from the middle (center) that would be great too.

I want to achieve the effect in the video I send earlier, and want it to be be working with a slider to easy adjust the repeats.
If this can be done through another way I would like to hear that ☺

Thanks,
Fabian

[Fabian Bosman]

Hi Dan,

I used the script from earlier in this Thread, but I came a cross a “bug” or something strange.
When I use this code, the formatting (colors, fonts) change to one font. I use two different fonts and two colors on the same text layer but they change to one font and one color.

Would it be possible to get and exact repeat effect from the text, fonts and colors I put in the text field?
See attached photo for an example what I mean.

Thanks,
Fabian

xRepeater = effect("X Repeater")("Slider").value;

yRepeater = effect("Y Repeater")("Slider").value;

horzRepeat = value.repeat(xRepeater);

vertRepeat = horzRepeat + "\n";

vertRepeat.repeat(yRepeater);