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how to have text presets affect spaces between words/letters
i’ve been trying to figure out how to get text presets to affect spaces as well as letters, but so far no luck.
i want to randomize letters (tweaked the “encyrption” preset to do this), but the randomisation only affects existing letters and not spaces – so even though letters are changing, the blocks of letters (words) always have the same number of letters per block. this doesn’t actually look very random.for example, if i have
“hello world”
and i want to randomize it to change to
“after effects seven”
there’s 9 extra characters that suddenly pop on, instead of having 9 spaces (which i have typed) after “hello world” randomizing from spaces to letters.so to clarify, i can never get
“xoaundoahd”
it’s always something like
“ziek sfvak”with the space in the middle.tired every setting i can find, thought it was “based on: characters” or “based on: characters excluding spaces” but nothing i try can make the spaces randomize to letters.
any suggestions?
thanks,
scott. -
4 Replies
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Have you tried animating the “Index”?
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Spaces are special characters. You need to work with the character values. Not in front of AE at the moment, but might require some more expression intervention to get it to work. For a simple solution try to add another character value animator before the others and find yourself the spaces which you then can animate to other characters.
Mylenium
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If you’re pressed for time, Digital Anarchy makes a plugin that randomizes text and accounts for spaces. I forget the name, but I bought it for Final Cut a while ago and it worked nicely.
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digital anarchy seems to be the way to go, one of the guys here has it i think.
i’d still be interested to know how you do it without plugins though… mylenium, i’m not sure i follow what you mean. even if i add extra animators, they still don’t affect spaces?
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