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Linking number of characters to opacity
Hello everyone, this is my first discussion here. Been a huge fan and for almost every problem with an expression, I have managed to find a solution on this forum.
However, I can’t find the solution to this specific problem.
For example, I have a text layer and have an expression in it using a global variable in the source text $.mytext = thisLayer.text.sourceText.length and it retrieves a number of characters.
I would love to connect for example opacity of the other shape by typing in opacity field if ($.mytext < 5) {100} else {0} and every time I change the text and it has more characters than five opacity will go down to zero. It just stops working if I change the text to something else.
Cheers
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2 Replies
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Hacking the global $ object to simulate global variables is a dicey operation at best and is probably doomed to fail if you change/animate the value (because of the stateless way that rendering occurs in AE). It doesn’t seem like you would need to do it in this case anyway–just have your opacity expression reference the length of the text directly.
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Hey Dan, thank you so much for your answer. Yes, I have noticed that after effects start to act strange when I use global $. I have managed now to reference it directly to text length.
v = thisComp.layer("Text").text.sourceText.length;
if (v<5) {100} else {0}
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