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Natural Type-On Expression
replied 1 year, 11 months ago 13 Members · 31 Replies
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How can I do this so it starts at the beginning of the layer and not the composition?
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From earlier in this thread:
I think you just need to change this line:
t = 0;
to this:
t = inPoint;
Dan
Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer -
This works very well Dan, but is there a solution to make this work per word instead of per character? Thank you
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I think this should work for words:
words=value.match(/([^\s\u0003]*[\s+|\u0003]?)/g);
minRate = 10; // frames per character
maxRate = 20;
wordCount = 0;
t = inPoint;
seedRandom(index,true);
while (t < time){
wordCount++;
t += framesToTime(random(minRate,maxRate));
}
words.slice(0,wordCount).join(""); -
amazing, thanks Filip!
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Hey Dan -Thank you for your incredible support to the community over the years.I have one question around this expression. What you created works perfectly, but I’m wondering how I can get more control over the start and end times (when the animation fully types out).Screenshot of code : https://share.zight.com/7KuZpxLnI thought using start and end layer markers could work, but it seems like there is an issue with how the frame rate is working and then the duration between markers but maybe there is a better way to get this level of control?
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Sorry, not able to see the code you’re talking about.
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Ah, sorry about that Dan, I attached the screenshot!
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You could try something like this (the end time will be approximate, because of the randomness):
m = marker;
t1 = m.key("start").time;
t2 = m.key("end").time;
n = value.length;
rate = (t2 - t1)/n;
charCount = 0;
t = t1;
seedRandom(index,true);
while (t < time){
charCount++;
t += random(rate/2,rate*1.5);
}
value.substr(0,charCount) -
Unreal. Thank you so much, Dan! That works exactly as intended! Can’t thank you enough.
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