Expression to assign a color to a letter?

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

It is curious, but if you use paragraph type (draw a box to contain the text) and let the line breaks fall where they may, it works, but if you use point type and insert manual line breaks it doesn’t.

I guess it could be considered a low-concern bug of sorts. Or at least an annoyance. Apparently AE omits line breaks in index calculation but includes them in the character count. So it would require a more complex expression to find out exactly what character is at which position if you want to use manual line breaks.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Ari Grunzeweig]

Interesting!

I ended up doing in manually for the sake of time, but your idea makes sense.

Thanks 🙂

Thanks,
Ari

[Joel Bellagamba]

Is there a way to change this expression to apply a different sequential color (say, from a set of 5) to each letter, in order – so the code doesn’t have to reference every character?

I realise the result won’t be obviously random, for large amounts of text – but great for short titles where each letter can be colorized specifically, using code.

[Filip Vandueren]

Sure,

that would be quite simple:

colours=[
[255,128,0],
[0,102,0],
[153,0,153],
]; // add as many colours as needed.

var i = textIndex % colours.length;
colors[i]/2.55;

[Joel Bellagamba]

Works perfectly, Filip (just needed to change “colours” on the bottom line).

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, it’s a massive help.

[Filip Vandueren]

Dammit ☺ I knew I was gonna miss one 😉