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Per character 3D question
Hey, I have some type set to ‘per character 3D’ that is restricted to a circular mask, imagine type orbiting around a planet. I’m trying to get the type opacity to go to 0 when facing away from the camera.
I’ve tried using both Dan Ebbert’s
toCompVec([0, 0, 1])[2] > 0 ? value : 0
and setting up a fade based on distance from camera, but both work on the whole words anchor point rather than each letters anchor point. So as the word disappears over the horizon, the the whole word blinks off rather than each letter in turn
Is there a way to do that? Am I missing something?
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4 Replies
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Hi Pete, there’s no method to do this in the same way one would do it with a layer’s anchorpoint.
The “per character 3D” shows small individual anchorpoints for each letter, but hose are not accessible with expressions.
A different approach to do it is by moving the letters along the path (for text on path, you can use x-position and it will slide along the path, a full revolution would be 2*PI*R)
Then doing an expression selector on an opacity animator, with a manually dialed in number of how many degrees wide your text-layer is.
But it gets tricker if you also want to move the camera, or the text is dynamic etc. -
Het Filip,
I suspected as much. 😞
But thank you for confirming.
Pete
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nice. that looks much better!
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