Text Anarchy?

[Mylenium]

[jimmybee500] “Very quick one..I just got an email from Digital Anarchy offering a discount on Text Anarchy. Had a quick look, but it doesn’t look like it can do anything I can’t already do in AE 7 Pro as standard….Or can it?”

Well, it does a few things automatically like the Matrix Rain, Text Grid and Screen Text, which, while not impossible to achieve with Particular and AE’s own tools, take time to create this way, especially if you need multiple instances with varied settings. If you don’t need them on a regular basis, you probably can forego them.

Mylenium

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Thanks Mylenium..I have Combustion aswell which as I recall has a matrix-style generator should I need it. Think I’ll leave the plugin for now then..just hate to miss a good deal!

Thanks.

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[Jim Tierney]

The filters are particle systems that are designed to let you generate, control, and use large amounts of text/font characters as design elements. The Matrix stuff is a good example of that, but it’s far from it’s only purpose. Definitely not as powerful as Particular for general purpose particles, but for text they’re very useful.

Obviously there are couple filters, such as Cool Text, in the set that are now redundant. And some, like TypeOn, can be achieved in AE7 but the filter offers an easier and more robust way of doing it.

So I still think they’re useful, but I’m also mildly biased. 🙂

fwiw, the Combustion particle system, which I believe is Particle Illusion 2.0, is very limited when it comes to text. It does do a matrix like effect with numbers, but I don’t _think_ you can make changes to the font or characters.

cheers,

Jim
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Jim Tierney
Digital Anarchy
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