Scale-animation triggerd by sourceRectAtTime

[Dan Ebberts]

The key is finding a decent trigger. What causes the text to change?

Dan

[Mårten Gunge]

Thanks for quick response.

Well. Its kind of a chain reaction kind of a thing.

I am using comps from spreadsheets to input text in four different textlayers. The textlength vary between one and three lines. To make the expression work I made a new textlayer (“Textlayer”) which uses the sourcetext from the four original layers at certain times (see expression below).

So I guess we could make some sort of time markers since its always happening at the same time…

The main objective is to make the textbox scale up or down accordingly to the number of rows in the texts with an animation.

if(time<8)(thisComp.layer("^Text1").text.sourceText)

else if(time<15)(thisComp.layer("^Text2").text.sourceText)

else if(time<23)(thisComp.layer("^Text3").text.sourceText)

else(thisComp.layer("^Text4").text.sourceText);

[Dan Ebberts]

I haven’t tested any of this, so it’s pretty rough, and there are probably better ways to do it, but something like this might work:


t1 = 8;
t2 = 15;
t3 = 23;
ramp = .25;
rect = thisComp.layer("Textlayer").sourceRectAtTime(time,false);
x = 100;
h = rect.height;
if (h>125) y=95;
else if (h>55) y=75;
else y=50;
s = [x,y]
if (time < t1){
s;
}else if (time125) y=95;
else if (h>55) y=75;
else y=50;
prevS = [x,y];
linear(time,t1,t1+ramp,prevS,s);
}else if (time125) y=95;
else if (h>55) y=75;
else y=50;
prevS = [x,y];
linear(time,t2,t2+ramp,prevS,s);
}else{
rect = thisComp.layer("Textlayer").sourceRectAtTime(t3-thisComp.frameDuration,false);
h = rect.height;
if (h>125) y=95;
else if (h>55) y=75;
else y=50;
prevS = [x,y];
linear(time,t3,t3+ramp,prevS,s);
}


Dan

[Mårten Gunge]

Hello again.

Seems to be a problem with the “else if” on line 19. Maybe a curly bracket to mush? Maybe a double else? Maybe something completely else else…

Any idea?

[Dan Ebberts]

Sorry, that really got mangled. This should be better:


t1 = 8;
t2 = 15;
t3 = 23;
ramp = .25;
function getXY(theTime){
x = 100;
rect = thisComp.layer("Textlayer").sourceRectAtTime(theTime,false);
h = rect.height;
if (h>125) return [x,95];
if (h>55) return [x,75];
return [x,50];
}
s = getXY(time);
if (time < t1){
s;
}else if (time < t2){
prevS = getXY(t1/2);
linear(time,t1,t1+ramp,prevS,s);
}else if (time < t3){
prevS = getXY((t1+t2)/2);
linear(time,t2,t2+ramp,prevS,s);
}else{
prevS = getXY((t2+t3)/2);
linear(time,t3,t3+ramp,prevS,s);
}


Dan

[Mårten Gunge]

That actually worked exactly the way I wanted it too.
I am knee deep in gratitude.
Or, as we say in Sweden. Tack så mycket!