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  CS6 – get ‘per Character 3D’ transform data information + reverse text expression

  Posted by Tim Hildebrandt on September 6, 2016 at 12:34 pm

  Hey guys,

  I have a quite special question about single Characters of a Text inside a Textlayer.

  Would it be possible to get specific data information about the position, rotation, transparency etc. of each individual character?
  For example, I would set my textlayer to ‘per character 3D’, change the y-axis about 100 degrees and animate the range selector from 0% to 100%.
  Now each character rotates one after another from 0 degrees to 100 degrees.
  Can I now receive any information about, when the first character’s rotation is higher than 90 degrees,
  the second one is higher than 90 degrees, the third one etc? So that I could use this info to do something different. If so, how?

  Basically I want to create a transition from one word/sentence into the same, but reversed (ABCDE becomes EDCBA). I know how to do it and it’s not hard without expressions, but I would like to know, if this would be possible with some expressions.

  So. Step by step this means:

  1. Can I receive specific transform data for each individual character in a text?

  2. Is there a way to tell AE to change the characters by itself? (ABC -> CBA)
  EDIT: Already got a soloution for this. Searched in some JavaScript forums and came up with this:

  thisText = text.sourceText;
thisText.split("").reverse().join("");

  I am working in CS6.

  Best regards,
  Tim

  Tim Hildebrandt replied 9 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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