Character offset specific letters

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August 3, 2020
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Hey guys

a liitle help here. I am using character offset to animate my text. However, i would like the offset to be limited to only a range of 5 characters For example A B C D and E instead of the full unicode. Any help will be greatly appreciated

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ShiveringCactus

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I might be misunderstanding here, but do you not need to just expand the Advanced section of Character offset and switch the Units from Percentage to Index?

Then the end value can be set to 5 (or 4 or whatever) and the animator will only affect the first 5 characters.

EDIT

For some reason when I viewed this thread only the OP's post appeared initially. Looks like I've said the same thing as Roland now that it's all loaded.

Roland Kahlenberg

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The Character Range option allows you to do this - select the Preserve Case & Digits option from the menu.

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artbyianAuthor

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Hello yes but this option will show all letters from A to z instead of just A to E

Roland Kahlenberg

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This should work. Provide a screen cap of your Timeline - allow us to see the 'inside' of your Text Layer.

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Mylenium

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You would have to use a source code expression to do that rather than an animator. There's an example of that out there, I just can't seem to find it right now. Perhaps a web search based on "animate predefined characters array" or similar will turn it up.

Mylenium