Generating random text…how?

[David Franklin]

Here’s a link to a Dan Ebberts tutorial about building a random array of binary numbers.

https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/binary-block.html

Perhaps you could use this as a starting point, only instead of reducing your string to base 2 as he does, keep it in base 10. This seems to me like it would do nicely for generating random strings of actual text.

[Adam Taylor]

great..thanks very much

adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

[Mike Clasby]

Here is another Dan link for a random number and letter grid:

https://www.creativecow.net/articles/ebberts_dan/ae6_exp/index2.html

Go to the part just above “Time to Split”.

Here is that same expression for letters only:

numRows = 4;
numChars = 8;
holdFrames = 5;

seed = Math.floor(time/(holdFrames*thisComp.frameDuration));
seedRandom(seed,true);

s = “”;
j = 0;
while(j < numRows){ k = 0; while (k < numChars){ c = Math.floor(random(58,84)); if (c > 57) c += 7;
s += String.fromCharCode(c);
k += 1;
}
s += “\r”;
j += 1;
}
s

Here is that expression for letters and numbers:

numRows = 4;
numChars = 8;
holdFrames = 5;

seed = Math.floor(time/(holdFrames*thisComp.frameDuration));
seedRandom(seed,true);

s = “”;
j = 0;
while(j < numRows){ k = 0; while (k < numChars){ c = Math.floor(random(48,84)); if (c > 57) c += 7;
s += String.fromCharCode(c);
k += 1;
}
s += “\r”;
j += 1;
}
s

[Adam Taylor]

exactly what i needed – worked like a charm.
thanks all.

adam

Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK