How to randomly change color of characters

[Dan Ebberts]

Try it this way:

x=effect(“Color Control”)(“Color”);
y=effect(“Color Control 2”)(“Color”);
palette = [[x[0],x[1],x[2]]*100, [y[0],y[1],y[2]]*100];
idx = (textIndex-1)%palette.length;
palette[idx]

Dan

[Marissa Joyner]

gosh darnit I knew it was something small, lol!

Thank you Dan!!!!!

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[Lewis Lloyd]

Hi Dan,

I read through your informative answers on this thread, and I managed to get the first script you posted working – but the following ones didn’t work for me unfortunately. I actually just want individual characters in my text to switch between black and white – like in the file attached. Is there an easy way to do this with a script? I sadly couldn’t get the one with a colour palette to work. Any help much appreciated.

Thanks!

Lewis

13336_titlestest.mp4.zip

[Dan Ebberts]

>I sadly couldn’t get the one with a colour palette to work.

This works for me (black text, white fill animator):

dur = .25; // length of time to hold each color
seedRandom(textIndex,true);
seg = Math.floor((time+random(999))/dur);
seedRandom(seg,true);
palette = [[100,100,100],[0,0,0]];
// [white,black]
idx = Math.floor(random(palette.length));
palette[idx]

Dan

[Lewis Lloyd]

Thank you so much @Dan Ebberts, you are a true original legend!

[Karin Jager]

Hi,

As other users before, I’m stuck with an expression that I can not write properly.
I’m using AE CS6.
I need to randomly animate the colors of individal characters in words, from white to colors.

I need characters to color gradually from left to right, one after the other. For that, I animated the end property with two keys, from 0% to 21% (because there is 21 characters, spaces included).

Text is white, fill color is black. I copy the code I found on Dan’s former posts, it creates random colors from the first key at 2 sec, but not gradually. Here is my screenshot, sorry that this is in French, I hope you ‘ll understand my request, I am not a specialist. I’ve been trying a lot of things that does not work !
Thanks in advance for your help, I’m getting mad with it ????
Karin

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Which expression are you using? There are six variations in this thread.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Karin Jager]

Hi,

Thanks for answering.
I’m using Animate/Fill Color/RGB and add selector expression in it, where expression is.
It’s maybe clearer in English :

K

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Ok, I see. Easiest to add a second animator and use it to overlay white on top of the animated color.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Karin Jager]

Many many thanks Kalleheikki Kannisto, It seems so easy when you know how to do it ???? Is there any chance that I could get your file 13421_colorletters.aep in a downgrade version ? (I use CS6) I would really like to see it.
Thanks again !