[Sami Bayley]

Hmm, not extremely experienced in scripting. I’ve wrote a couple with a decent amount of help – still learning. How would I inspect the object model?

[Sami Bayley]

Didn’t know that! Brilliant, will take a look, thanks!

[Sami Bayley]

Also, the expression gives me some jolting. Screenshot attached, not sure if it works, never added a photo on here before.

Would be nice to smooth() POST expression value. I stumbled across an old post from about 10 years ago that you had commented on (I’m pretty sure every thread I look at, you’ve helped someone, so thanks for being awesome).
You mentioned “building your own smoother” like this:

(valueAtTime(time – .1) – [10,10,10] +
valueAtTime(time – .05) – [10,10,10] +
value – [10,10,10] +
valueAtTime(time + .05) – [10,10,10] +
valueAtTime(time + .1) – [10,10,10])/5;

Is there a way I could implement this into my current expression?

[Sami Bayley]

This works much better. But I think I’ve found something that looks more natural. This is what I’ve been using on the Range Selector:

range = text.animator("Animator 1").selector("Range Selector 1").start;
k1 = range.key(1).time;
k2 = range.key(2).time;
w = wiggle(1,15);

if (time > k1 && time < k2) {t = w;}
else {t = value;}

clamp(t,value-6,100)

It looks really natural, and you can use the keyframes to have a precise start and end point. Could also add a slider to the wiggle values to have some extra control.

I actually kind of like the fact that letters are ‘deleted’ by the value getting smaller than previous. However, what would be AWESOME, would be 2 things:

• Have the ‘error’ letters that end up deleted, be the WRONG letter before they’re deleted, and the correct letter after its ‘re-typed’. Is this at all possible?
• Have a blinking Caret or underscore that follows after the type. Would add to the realism I think.

Cheers in advance Dan, you’re always a great help with things that genuinely seem impossible to me/others!

[Sami Bayley]

Hey Dan, seems like it could work great. But for some reason when I increase the randomness, some of the characters later on in the text layer are showing up before the characters before them. If that makes any sense at all!

[Sami Bayley]

Would still be too smooth, would need something random, not an ease. Testing some stuff, but I think I’ve found a way! Will update if I sort it 🙂

[Sami Bayley]

Does something need to happen with Anchor point?

[Sami Bayley]

Thanks Andrei, unfortunately, still way off for some reason!

[Sami Bayley]

Hey Walter! This is great, I’m wondering if theres a way to stick to the bottom right edge instead of top right? Can’t seem to figure it out.

[Sami Bayley]

Hey Dan!

Is there a revised version of this expression for newer versions of after effects? For some reason, when I add the “right edge” expression, even with the gap at 0, its WAY off to the right. No other expressions or parenting. Using on 2 text layers.

Cheers!

Another note: not sure why this happens, but when I copy and paste expressions, AE gives me errors. I just retype the whole expression myself exactly the way it was copied and it ends up working. Very odd!