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String as keyframable input
Hi, community!
I’m working on a lip–syncing rig and looking for a way to have letters as an input, which I could keyframe over time.
The goal ist to be able to do something like that:
var n = thisComp.layer("cntrl").effect("??????")("??????");if (n==a){
ax=100;
ay=200;
}if (n==b){
ax=200;
ay=200;
}if (n==3){
ax=300;
ay=200;
}if (n==c){
ax=500;
ay=200;
}else{};if (n==4){
ax=400;
ay=200;
}[ax,ay];
Is there any effect which offers me that option to keyframe text?
Thanks!! -
5 Replies
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Why not use a text layer?
Dan
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I believe you want to find out what the character at a given index in the text is.
Here’s a way to extract a character at a given position in a string, if you have a layer named “control” with a slider control named “index of” and a text layer named text.
n = Math.round(thisComp.layer("control").effect("index of")("Slider"));
string=thisComp.layer("Text").text.sourceText;
string[n]If you apply that to the source text of another text layer you get the character at the index given by the slider value.
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It’s not really adressing my problem. I’ll remember it for the future though. 🙂
Thank you a lot!
& have a great day 🙂 -
Hey! That’s a solution! Thanks!
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Looks like you’ll have to add a Math.max expression to ensure it doesn’t go over the number of characters in the string or it will throw an error.
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