[Yoan Boisjoli]

Ok! So if I understand correctly, you if the logo is “on” then the text needs to give space to the logo and be re-positioned 132px to the right?

so in position of the text layer you’ll need something like this:

logoWidth = thisComp.layer("Logos").sourceRectAtTime().width; //this gets the width of the logo layer
logoOpacity = thisComp.layer("Logos").transform.opacity;
if(logoOpacity == 100){
	[value[0]+logoWidth, value[1]]; //this tells the X pos to move the distance of the lenght of the logo to the right
}else{
	[value[0], value[1]]; //
};

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hi Ken, not sure exactly what you’re trying to accomplish with “value+[dName,0];”.

For the second part (the conditional statement), this is how you should write it:

if(thisComp("Logos").transform.opacity == 100){ 132; }else{0;}

If I may recommend a very useful plugin, you should check out Pins and Boxes (link) I use it for almost every mogrt that I do, especially lower thirds.

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Wow that’s pretty clever Fabrice! Merci!

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hey Thomas! Thanks for reply!

I was too much into wanting to use the text styling expressions that I forgot that I could just use an expression selector with some Regex!

I’ll just have the scale and position be triggered and it will do the trick!

Thanks! Have a good day!

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Yeah I started playing with it! It’s pretty cool! I’ve had the brackets “[]” replace with a zero width space (“\u200b”) so I can easily target it with other expression selector (color for example).

I’ll try to see if I can have the spaces between words be highlighted too when more than a word is selected in between brackets. I’ll let you know !

[Yoan Boisjoli]

FILIP ! This is amazing !!

How did you create this? Man I think it would’ve taken me ages to to come up with that solution!

The bad solution I was getting to experiment with was duplicating the text layer and have the effect shift channels to “full on” which made squares under the text thus respecting the characters width.

What is calculations? That’s the only thing I can’t get me head around!

I’m still flabbergasted haha wow ?

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Oh yes how did I ever forget about the linear() and ease() functions! These are life savers!

Thanks Trent!

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hi!

First method that can work is with a simple if/else statement. i.e.: if time is smaller than keyframe’s time apply expression, else apply keyframes value.

Second method would be just like Dan said, link the expression to an expression controller and keyframe the controllers.

Let me know if it answers your question!

Cheers!

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Wow it looks amazing! Good job Filip!

Can’t wait to open the file as soon as I get home! ?

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Oh yeah multiple boxes sounds interesting! In my case I’m trying to have a way of writing words within brackets and automatically having these words being highlighted. I’m afraid the person using the mogrt might be confused with the index numbers to control the selection area.

I’ll keep working on it and you keep working on yours hehe maybe we can compare our work 😛

oh by the way not sure I understood 100% when you wrote “I’ll probably dinsdags it tonight.”

I think dutch autocorrect got you and confused “keep working on” with “tuesdays” hahaha am I right?