Creative COW | Tilman Commes | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/tilmancommes/activity/ Activity feed for Tilman Commes. Sat, 16 May 2026 02:38:05 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 0ad46fa1cacf5522da1a5bf52f9cd172 Tilman Commes replied to the discussion Find out position of individual characters in text layer in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/find-out-position-of-individual-characters-in-text-layer/#post-2349962 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:04:54 +0000 Reply to Find out position of individual characters in text layer

Wow, thanks a lot Filip! I will take this project apart for educational purposes if I may!

No, the text layer can have different numbers of lines, but it’s always paragraph text.

And yes, the highlighting is going to work with text-animators at first. But I’m shure I can tweak your expression so it could also use a backdrop or anythig else! After…

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]]> 46d98eee92f4da16b5f871f9777855b9 Tilman Commes started the discussion Find out position of individual characters in text layer in the forum Adobe After Effects Expressions https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/find-out-position-of-individual-characters-in-text-layer/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:18:56 +0000 Find out position of individual characters in text layer

Hi!
I would like to enable the people who use my .aep to visually position two guide-layers on a text layer, to choose a text range to be highlighted.
Therefore, I would have to inquire the position of individual letters and their index inside the text string. Is that possible? Or does anybody have an idea for a workaround?
Thanks!

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