[Kevin Dazet]

Amazing—it works! I’m trying to wrap my head around what you’ve done here, but it does do exactly what I wanted. Yes, the animation slider is controlled by keyframes.

Thanks, Filip!

[Kevin Dazet]

That’s the ticket! Thank you!

[Kevin Dazet]

I think I figured it out. I’m not using paragraph text, but I’ve been using soft returns (old habit). I just need to make sure anyone inputting text is using hard returns.

Thanks, guys!

[Kevin Dazet]

No luck, unfortunately—it still counts the line breaks

[Kevin Dazet]

Thanks, Yoan! I get an error, though. I had to change the first line to

var t = text.sourceText.value

But then I get an error saying “undefined value used in expression(could be an out of range array subscript?)”

Any idea what’s wrong?

[Kevin Dazet]

Hallelujah—it works! Thanks to you both! Andrei: you really saved the day.

I have a feeling I’ll be using this expression a lot in the future.

[Kevin Dazet]

Thanks, Andrei! I got an error on line three of the expression that says “Expected: ;”

Any idea what’s causing that?

[Kevin Dazet]

Hey Tom,

I’m curious if you ever figured out a solution to this. I’m having the same issue and wish there were some kind of “near vanish” function…

[Kevin Dazet]

Unfortunately, I didn’t. I think my workaround was to trace my image in Illustrator, then import and extrude the resulting spline and assign my texture to it. That way I didn’t have to worry about the alpha channel. Unfortunately this is really cumbersome. I wish there were an easier fix.

[Kevin Dazet]

That’s exactly what I needed. Thanks Dan!