[John Crump]

Nevermind! I got it to work. Dan you are a legend. Love everything you do for the MD community, thank you.

[John Crump]

oo interesting, Thank you Dan. It will be animated, however I’m not quite sure how to plug this into the layer and get it to work, do you have any suggestions on that?

[John Crump]

Thanks for the reply Dan, I originally tried that as well. The part I can’t figure out is that I need both objects to start at the same size, say 200×200. The parent object scales up to 400×400 and the child object should only grow 75% of that, which is 350×350. As soon as I link everything together, the object that has the scale expression applied, shrinks down because it’s scale is now 75%. So if I rescale that object so that it starts at the same size, and scale the parent object, both objects stay the same size. Or if I attach the child object to the null with the expression, AFTER applying the expression, I have the same result. I will attach a file to show you what’s happening. I really appreciate the help

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[John Crump]

amazing, thanks Filip!

[John Crump]

This works very well Dan, but is there a solution to make this work per word instead of per character? Thank you