• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  How to use “sourceRectAtTime” expression with characters below the font baseline

  Posted by Henry Gaunt on July 25, 2017 at 8:37 am

  Hello cows –

  I’m using this expression on a shape layers ‘rectangle path 1’

  s=thisComp.layer("THIRETEEN");
padding = 60;
x=s.sourceRectAtTime(time-s.inPoint,true).width;
y=s.sourceRectAtTime(time-s.inPoint,true).height;
content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").size/2;
[x+padding,y+padding]

  It works perfectly.

  However, when my text layer has a ‘,’ (comma) in it, the whole box increases in size all the way around. Almost like a 10px stroke is being added.

  It affects any character that sits below the text base line. e.g.; q, y, p – I’ve solved it by using upper case, but the comma is still persistent.

  Is there a reason for this?

  Thank you for any help.

  Henry Gaunt replied 8 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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