[Scott Mcgee]

Ignore me, just watched it and it’s manually done.

However Tomas who’s a regular boffin on here created this. Which is what you’re after. Or can guide you better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3_0aAVegc8

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[Scott Mcgee]

Found this for you that might offer the answer you seek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn4biGJScsU

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[Scott Mcgee]

your issue is that you’ve not stated the animation.

So if you want it to animate you’d need to put in a transition expression.

if ( r >= 0 && r<1) {
295.9059;
}

What you want is to add ease() or linear()

ease(Time,StartTime,EndTime,StartPosition,EndPosition);

[Scott Mcgee]

Ah yes, my bad. Can’t believe I missed that bit. Hahaha

[Scott Mcgee]

MyString = “This is my text”
if (MyString.indexOf(“my”)) “Yes” else “Nope”

You were missing a closing bracket, but you use indexOf() not contains. Unless someone corrects me. Eitherway the above will work for you.

[Scott Mcgee]

Sounds like you are either using an old version of after effects or haven’t turned off Legacy in your expression settings in project settings.

[Scott Mcgee]

Not quite sure what the problem is, unless your offset has a scale adjustment on it.

Either you need to px size on your text, or scale. To firstly make sure that isn’t the issue. If you are using different font then you need to look more into your scale to resize.

So you’d match the height by using sourceRectAtTime(), which there is plenty of documentation around. Something like this would work. (Pinched from Dan Ebberts)

s1 = thisComp.layer(“Bottom Line”).sourceRectAtTime().width; //the line I’m trying to match
s2 = thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime().width;
s = (s1/s2)*100;
[s,s]

[Scott Mcgee]

Stealing this one from Dan Ebberts in another post. All you need to do is put a “[” at the front of the string and “]” at the end. Anything inbetween will be filled.

Put this into your sourceText

str = text.sourceText;
zws = “\u200b”;
res1 = str.replace(/\[/g, zws);
res2 = res1.replace(/\]/g, zws);

and this into the expression selector, make sure to change Based on to Characters

txt = text.sourceText;
zws = “\u200b”;
idx = 1;
i = 0;
n = 0;
while (idx < textIndex){
if (txt.value[i] == “\r”){
i++;
continue;
}
if (txt.value[i] == zws) n++;
i++;
idx++;
}
n%2 ? 100 : 0

[Scott Mcgee]

Someone might reply with a more modern method if it exists.

But if you put a fill color using the Animate button to the right when you drop down the text layer, then add an expression selector onto it. Something like this will work

words = text.sourceText.replace(/^\s+/, “”).split(/\s+/);
if (words[textIndex-1].indexOf (“#”) >-1) 100 else 0

[Scott Mcgee]

Hey Nicholas,

So “f” is just a var, so you can change it to whatever you want. So like the last expression I sent, you can see I changed the variables.

c = effect(“Color Control”)(“Color”)

lite = .25; // lightness factor
sat = 1; // Saturation factor
hue = .25; // hue factor

hsl = rgbToHsl(c);
hslToRgb([hsl[0]*hue,hsl[1]*sat,hsl[2]*lite,hsl[3]])

as for the //comment. You can write comments and notes a few different ways. However I’m guilty of not always noting my coding, but it does help if you have hundreds of lines of code and you want to notaries it.

//Lightness factor
lite = .25;

lite = .25; // lightness factor

/*
This allows you to do multiple line notes.

Should you need to add more detail and don’t want long lines
*/