[Lloyd Alvarez]

Thanks for the reply Dan, but what that does (if i understand it correctly) is it offsets the characters [100,100] and the expression selector then randomizes how much each character gets offset but always in the direction of [100,100] so essentially all the characters drift in from the lower left in this case..

What I wish (and I am off to file a feature request since it’s apparently not possible now) is to be able to access textIndex from Position so that I could write an expression that would be able to truly randomize the position of each character individually.

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

Interesting.. I hadnt considered that. I would probably select layers in a group without a break between the layer order, but I guess if i selected in a weird order it would be good if they ended up in the same slots..

[Lloyd Alvarez]

Interesting.. I hadnt considered that. I would probably select layers in a group without a break between the layer order, but I guess if i selected in a weird order it would be good if they ended up in the same slots..

[Lloyd Alvarez]

You should just do your text in AE. To animate the tracking of text from illustrator you’d have to separate each letter as a separate layer and animate each of their positions. You could setup an expression at this point to help with this but i personally dont think it’s worth the trouble considering how easy it is to work with text natively in AE.

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

Hey Dan,

Is there a way to make this script work with selected layers instead of all the layers in a Comp?

[Lloyd Alvarez]

Since you are archiving the expression.. to really polish it off, you should make it like this:

value + (Math.floor(time) * 6)%360;

This will reset the rotation every cycle instead of continually growing.. AE actually has limits, so it’s good practice to reset counters when feasible.

-lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

Actually the correct expression would be this:

Math.floor(time) * 6;

[Lloyd Alvarez]

If the clock ticking is every second, then you dont need to sync it to the audio, you can just program it to rotate every second (add to rotation of second hand):

Math.floor(time);

if you must sync, you can use SoundKeys from Trapcode: https://www.trapcode.com/products_soundkeys.html

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

depending on what direction you are traveling you could use linear:

layer1position=thisComp.layer(“layer1”).transform.position;
if (layer1position[0] <= -98 && layer1position[0] >= -102) {
y=linear(layer1position[0],-102,-98,-102,value[1]);
[value[0], y];
}else{
value;
}

-Lloyd

[Lloyd Alvarez]

There’s 2 presets for this. NTSC Widescreen which is 720×486 with a 1.2 pixel aspect ratio and NTSC Widescreen Square Pixel which is 864 x 486 with a 1.0 par