Text animator index

[Dan Ebberts]

For an expression applied to a range Selector’s Start or End property, I think this will give you the index of the Animator:

propertyGroup(3).propertyIndex

Dan

[Edit Luovia]

Thanks Dan, that’s just what I’ve been searching for!

Luovia

[Peter Menich]

Hi Folks,

I’m trying to get my head around this ‘propertyGroup/propertyIndex’ shenanigans and struggling.

I think I’m trying to do the same thing as Luovia.

I’m trying to get a group of letters in a block of text to break up in a random fashion.

I’ve applied an expression to the block of text that selects the first letter and applies a random positional and rotational drift over time using interpolation. I’m using the index range selector rather than the percentage, so my start is 0 and my end is 1.

What I want to be able to do is duplicate the property group and reference the previous property groups range ‘offset’ and add a 1 to get the next letter along in the string.

It seems that all the ‘propertyGroup(x).propertyIndex’ does is tell you the index number rather than the value itself, and even then I’m struggling to actually understand how you work out how to get to the previous property groups offset value.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Otherwise I’m going to have to roll up my sleeves and get medieval on its a**.

[Dan Ebberts]

This should get you the same property in the previous Range Selector (within the same Animator):

mySelector = thisProperty.propertyGroup(1).propertyIndex;
thisProperty.propertyGroup(2)(mySelector-1)(propertyIndex)

Dan