Expression to assign a color to a letter?

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

How do you have this set up and what property are you applying this expression to?

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Ari Grunzeweig]

Thanks so much for your reply. Please see the attached screenshot. Does that help clarify?

Thanks gain!

Thanks,
Ari

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Ok, I see. That should work, as long as the original color of the type is black. You are adding a percentage of white to each of the RGB channels to the existing color. If the original color is something else, the target color gets added to the original color, resulting in something else.

If you want to use colored lettering to start with, you’ll need two color animators with expression selector. The first color expression would add 100% black to any letters that you want to subsequently color. The second would be the same you currently have.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Ari Grunzeweig]

Hi,

Thanks very much, but I’m still not getting the result. My source text is black as is the ‘base color’ in the expression.
I tried adding an animator before the one I had with color set to black, and the result is the same. This is the full code on the second animator:

txt = text.sourceText;
switch(txt[textIndex-1]){
case "a":
color = [255,128,0];
break;
case "b":
color = [0,102,0];
break;
case "c":
color = [0,102,102];
break;
case "d":
color = [0,76,153];
break;
case "e":
color = [76,0,153];
break;
case "f":
color = [153,0,153];
break;
case "g":
color = [204,0,102];
break;
case "h":
color = [50,75,75];
break;
case "i":
color = [153,0,0];
break;
case "j":
color = [0,102,0];
break;
case "k":
color = [0,102,102];
break;
case "l":
color = [0,76,153];
break;
case "m":
color = [0,153,153];
break;
case "n":
color = [153,0,153];
break;
case "o":
color = [204,0,102];
break;
case "p":
color = [50,75,75];
break;
case "q":
color = [153,0,0];
break;
case "r":
color = [0,102,0];
break;
case "s":
color = [0,102,102];
break;
case "t":
color = [0,76,153];
break;
case "u":
color = [76,0,153];
break;
case "v":
color = [153,0,153];
break;
case "w":
color = [204,0,102];
break;
case "x":
color = [50,75,75];
break;
case "y":
color = [204,0,102];
break;
case "z":
color = [50,75,75];
break;
default:
color = [22,40,69];
break;
}
color*100/255

Also attached is a new screenshot trying your suggested setup:

Thanks!!

Thanks,
Ari

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Works just fine for me.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Ari Grunzeweig]

Amazing!

I can’t figure out what I am doing differently 🙁

Thanks,
Ari

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Here’s my file.

13421_colorletters.aep.zip

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Ari Grunzeweig]

Thank you!

Thanks,
Ari

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Did you figure out what the difference was?

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Ari Grunzeweig]

Thanks so much for your help. Unfortunately I’m totally at a loss.

My structure and code looks just like yours, but still not working!

Maybe there is something small I’m missing…

My project is attached in case you are able to spot the problem.

13446_ssorenschuldinertest.aep.zip

Thanks again!

Thanks,
Ari