Data Driven Animation: get Color from Json

[Dan Ebberts]

I can’t exactly picture what you’re describing, but if you import your json file, you could then use something like this on the color property:

data = footage(“your_json_file.json”).sourceData;
eval(data.textcolor)/255

Note that if you had your color data as an array instead of a string, like this:

{
“textcolor”: [255,0,255,255]
}

you could eliminate the eval() in the color expression:

data = footage(“your_json_file.json”).sourceData;
data.textcolor/255

Dan

[Alex Weil]

sorry, had some little failures in my text … sorry, i meant “textcolor”

i tried to say, that i only have an expression on the layer, that says “footage(“test9.json”).dataValue([9])” but there was no data that i can use to pick my color from.

thanks to your answer, i erased the quotation marks from the array and now i got some nice usable data ☺
thanks dan