[Nimrod Zin]

ok… figured it out.

effectName=thisLayer.name;

comp(“1”).layer(“1”).effect(effectName)(“Slider”).valueAtTime(time+PRECOMP_TIME_AT_COMP(“1”)

[Nimrod Zin]

Thank you so much…

I’m not sure I got you or vice versa…

I translated the expression values to a text layer and seems it does get the right values.

The expression is “working” (doesn’t give an error), but it looks like it’s ignoring the if statement.

[Nimrod Zin]

Thanks,
I was looking for that and it seemed unlikely it was there.
Thank you!

[Nimrod Zin]

Reversing it will not give me what I’m looking to do.
If you reverse the deconstruction the particles will stick when hitting each other.
I want them to go past the ones that stuck first.
Think of a word… LOGO…
Particles are flying from left side of the screen. When the first particles reach the “hidden” L they start revealing it.
The trail of the of the particles dust continues to fly after the head and reveal s the next letter and so on…
Reversing it will make them fly over the first letter and constructing the logo from the end of it.
Explaining it now made me try to just reverse precomposed layer of the particle layer and leave the original revealed logo in the original comp but then the position of the particles is screwed up…
Is there maybe a way to deconstruct the word NOT like in this? tutorial?

[Nimrod Zin]

With your powers combined… I’m Captain Planet!!!
Thanks for all your help.
What Kevin suggested hit the spot almot 100%, The markers work wonderfully, but it still split the paragraph to words only untill breaks…
I found this and this did it perfectly
words = txt.split(/\s+/);
I don’t know how to read it and why it works but it did.
Thanks Folks…

That’s what I did with it for now.

[Nimrod Zin]

Cna I use .split to seperate the paragraph into a word array? if so how?
Where can I read about .split? I didn’t manage to find anything about it in anywhere.

[Nimrod Zin]

Thanks for the quick response.
This is a good solution for controlling the apperancd and time.
The thing I can’t find as well is how to describe the word index of a paragraph. I want to just copy paste any text, 100 of words or more… I will probably have to change it from time to time, and I don’t want to type and keyframe every word.
Thanks again…