How to display text by plugin

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August 7, 2022
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I want to display text like timecode effect.
I searched how to display text in sdk documentation. But I could not. Any sample show me the way.

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Correct answer shachar carmi

gdiplus on windows, and quartz on osx.

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shachar carmi

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AE's API doesn't offer any text generating funcitons for the render buffer. (as opposed to the UI buffer where there's the drawbot suite)
you can however, fill the render buffer using whatever method you'd like. i personally generate text for the render buffer using a native OS buffer with the OS text tools, then copying it's content back to AE's render buffer.