I see. That explains the error then. Thanks so much for your help. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to send them my way.

Cheers!

That’s why I’m trying to put an expression on the fill, something similar to the one that works on the source text. I wouldn’t need to animate it, I would just need it to come after the animator that offsets the text so the characters are colored appropriately.

The idea is to have a block of “password text” that is cycling over and over. I was hoping I could add a character offset to the text layer, but the offset is applied after the source code is affected by the expression. So the the color coding stays attached to the original text. If a letter changes to a number, it will still have the original…

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I have a follow up question, Dan.

I’m trying to animate the characters to randomly offset, so doing this on the Source Text level will only apply the colors to the original text correctly. I tried to run it through AI again to apply it to a text animator and it came up with this:

// Define colors

letterColor = [.4784, .4784, .4784]; //…

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Thanks Dan! Worked like a charm. (Didn’t realize I uploaded the wrong screenshot – hope that wasn’t too confusing 😀)

Hi!
I’m struggling with an expression problem. I’m trying to simulate color coding of text like a password generator does (see attachment). I’ve tried to add expressions to text animators with code like this on the fill property of the animator (I’m not a coder, so blame AI if this is the issue 😊)

// Define colors

letterColor = [1,0,0,1];… Read more