Text animator different for even/odd lines

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Andrei, thats an interesting idea.

1. Do you plan to set Text Animator into lines, or would prefer to detect lines automatically, while applying ‘char or words’ based transformations?
2. In terms of text – plain text layer, with paragraph of content?

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[Andrei Popa]

Hey. Even though i don’t fully understand the expressions from the text animator(they seem odd to me, compared to the ordinary ones), i came up with this. I am sure it can be somehow simplified, but it ain’t stupid if it works, right?

I add a text animator for position, set it to aproximately half the width of the comp plus the width of my text layer.
add expression selector, based on lines, with this expression:

thisSign = (textIndex%2 == 0) ? 1 : -1;
dur = 5;
thisTime = Math.max(framesToTime(dur) - (time-inPoint),0);
val = linear(thisTime,0,framesToTime(dur),0,1)*100;
thisSign *val

I tried to determine a way to make 0-100 within my duration and then i added a + or – sign to make it go the other way.

Andrei
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