Some expressions that could help with laborious long expressions. Now you just need to fill in laborious Arrays!
3 expressions for those to play with. Note You may not have the same fonts installed as me. SO adjust your font arrays as neccesary. AE uses the Postript Name for Fonts in expressions.
1. Random Font Per Character
2. Set Multi Attributes in an array order split per word/line/delimiter
3. Set Multi Attributes in Radnom order split per line/word/delimiter
Numbers 2 and 3 should help you out @Jesse27755342iou7
// code for AE Beta 24.5 Per character styling
// https://be.net/volition - 2024
// Random Fonts per Character
//
// BEWARE as this is a very slow expression due to the nature of it.
// Could be made slightly more optimal by looking for whitespaces and character returns and grouping them within the iteration, even then i'm not confident in that.
// posterizeTime(0); // uncomment line and changeRate to 0 if you don't want the font changing over time - it should help with processing optimisation
var changeRate = 50; // change every x frames (I recomend adding )
var frequency = changeRate*thisComp.frameDuration;
var timeIndex = changeRate ? Math.floor(time/frequency) : 0;
var regularFontArray = ["KaushanScript-Regular", "Lato-Regular", "VT323-Regular", "GreatVibes-Regular", "FiraMono-Regular", "Exo2-Regular", "Raleway-Regular", "OpenSans-Regular", "Ubuntu-Regular", "Muli-Regular", "PlayfairDisplay-Regular", "Heebo-Regular", "CutiveMono-Regular", "BarlowCondensed-Regular", "ROGFontsv1.6-Regular", "NotoSansJP-Regular", "ArchivoNarrow-Regular", "PTMono-Regular", "FjallaOne-Regular", "JuliusSansOne-Regular", "Satisfy-Regular", "RobotoMono-Regular", "SourceSansPro-Regular", "Domine-Regular"];
var sourceText = text.sourceText.value; // Get the text value as a string
var startIndex = 0;
var expression = "text.sourceText.style"; // Initialize the expression
for (var i = 0; i < sourceText.length; i++) {
var charLength = 1;
seedRandom(index+i+timeIndex*sourceText.length,true);
var randomFont = regularFontArray[Math.floor(Math.random() * regularFontArray.length)];
expression += `.setFont("${randomFont}", ${startIndex}, ${charLength})`;
startIndex += 1;
}
expression += ";"
// Output the final expression
eval(expression)
Ok Now for Number 2
// code for AE Beta 24.5 Per character styling
// https://be.net/volition - 2024
// CHANGES TEXT ATTRIBUTES EVERY WORD/LINE/ OTHER DEPENDING ON DELIMITER ACCORDING TO THE ARRAY ORDERS
// quick guide for those not as familiar with expressions
// choose your delimiter variable [" "] will change per word ["\n","\r"] will change per line you can also use any other delimiters you want
// textProperties & textPropertyValues you can set how ever many or few text attributes and the trange of values it that attribute will cycle through.
// If you don't want the array to cycle through over the animation. you can remove the 3 lines from changeRate on and remove ",index+timeIndex" from output
// WARNING these expressions can slow your system way down if elaborate and lots of text
// posterizeTime(0); // use if not wanting ongoing change of attributes over time also uncomment this line
function getIndicesOf(text, chars) {
var indices = [];
for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
if (chars.indexOf(text[i]) !== -1) {
indices.push(i);
}
}
return indices;
}
function setTextPerPropsDelimiterArrayOrder(sourceText, delimiter, textProperties, textPropertyValues, indexOffset) {
var delimitIndices = getIndicesOf(sourceText, delimiter);
delimitIndices.push(sourceText.length);
var expression = "text.sourceText.style"; // Initialize the expression
var startIndex = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < textProperties.length; i++) { // step through the attributes
startIndex = 0;
for (var j = 0; j < delimitIndices.length; j++) { // step through the elements for each attribute
var endIndex = delimitIndices[j];
var wordLength = endIndex - startIndex;
if (wordLength > 0) {
var setAttribute = textProperties[i];
var setAttributeValue = textPropertyValues[i][(j+indexOffset)%textPropertyValues[i].length]; // cycle back
if (Array.isArray(setAttributeValue)) { // check if element has more then 1 value it needs to be applied as an array with square brackets
expression += `.${setAttribute}([${setAttributeValue}], ${startIndex}, ${wordLength})`;
} else {
expression += `.${setAttribute}("${setAttributeValue}", ${startIndex}, ${wordLength})`;
}
}
startIndex = endIndex + 1; // Move to next word
}
}
return expression += ";"
}
var sourceText = text.sourceText.value;
var delimiter = [" "];
var textProperties = ["setApplyStroke","setStrokeColor","setStrokeWidth","setFont"];
var textPropertyValues = [[1,1,0,1,1,0],
[[1.0, 0.0, 0.0],[0.0, 1.0, 0.0],[0.0, 0.0, 1.0],[1.0, 1.0, 0.0],[1.0, 0.0, 1.0],[0.0, 1.0, 1.0]],
[1,1.5,2,3,0.5,1,],
["Lato-Regular", "VT323-Regular", "GreatVibes-Regular", "FiraMono-Regular", "Exo2-Regular", "Raleway-Regular", "OpenSans-Regular", "Ubuntu-Regular", "Muli-Regular", "PlayfairDisplay-Regular", "Heebo-Regular", "CutiveMono-Regular", "BarlowCondensed-Regular", "ROGFontsv1.6-Regular", "NotoSansJP-Regular", "ArchivoNarrow-Regular", "PTMono-Regular", "FjallaOne-Regular", "JuliusSansOne-Regular", "Satisfy-Regular", "RobotoMono-Regular", "SourceSansPro-Regular", "Domine-Regular"]
]
var changeRate = 50; // change every x frames (I recomend adding )
var frequency = changeRate*thisComp.frameDuration;
var timeIndex = changeRate ? Math.floor(time/frequency) : 0;
output = setTextPerPropsDelimiterArrayOrder(sourceText, delimiter,textProperties,textPropertyValues,index+timeIndex);
// evaluate the expression string
eval(output)
Last one Hope they help someone
// code for AE Beta 24.5 Per character styling
// https://be.net/volition - 2024
// CHANGES TEXT ATTRIBUTES EVERY WORD/LINE/ OTHER DEPENDING ON DELIMITER DOES SO RANDOMNLY
// quick guide for those not as familiar with expressions
// choose your delimiter variable [" "] will change per word ["\n","\r"] will change per line you can also use any other delimiters you want
// textProperties & textPropertyValues you can set how ever many or few text attributes and the trange of values it that attribute will cycle through.
// If you don't want the array to cycle through over the animation. you can remove the 3 lines from changeRate on and remove ",index+timeIndex" from output
// WARNING these expressions can slow your system way down if elaborate and lots of text
// posterizeTime(0); // use if not wanting ongoing change of attributes over time also uncomment this line
function getIndicesOf(text, chars) {
var indices = [];
for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
if (chars.indexOf(text[i]) !== -1) {
indices.push(i);
}
}
return indices;
}
function setTextPerPropsDelimiterRandomOrder(sourceText, delimiter, textProperties, textPropertyValues, textSeed = 0) {
var delimitIndices = getIndicesOf(sourceText, delimiter);
delimitIndices.push(sourceText.length);
var expression = "text.sourceText.style"; // Initialize the expression
var startIndex = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < textProperties.length; i++) { // step through the attributes
startIndex = 0;
for (var j = 0; j < delimitIndices.length; j++) { // step through the elements for each attribute
var endIndex = delimitIndices[j];
var wordLength = endIndex - startIndex;
if (wordLength > 0) {
var setAttribute = textProperties[i];
seedRandom(index+i+j+textSeed*sourceText.length,true);
var setAttributeValue = textPropertyValues[i][Math.floor(Math.random() * textPropertyValues[i].length)]; // cycle back
if (Array.isArray(setAttributeValue)) { // check if element has more then 1 value it needs to be applied as an array with square brackets
expression += `.${setAttribute}([${setAttributeValue}], ${startIndex}, ${wordLength})`;
} else {
expression += `.${setAttribute}("${setAttributeValue}", ${startIndex}, ${wordLength})`;
}
}
startIndex = endIndex + 1; // Move to next word
}
}
return expression += ";"
}
var sourceText = text.sourceText.value;
var delimiter = [" "];
var textProperties = ["setApplyStroke","setStrokeColor","setStrokeWidth","setFont","setApplyFill"];
var textPropertyValues = [[1,0],
[[1.0, 0.0, 0.0],[0.0, 1.0, 0.0],[0.0, 0.5, 1.0],[1.0, 1.0, 0.0],[1.0, 0.0, 1.0],[0.0, 1.0, 1.0],[0.7, 0.5, 1.0],[0.8, 0.5, 0.6]],
[1,1.5,2,3,0.5,1,6],
["Lato-Regular", "VT323-Regular", "GreatVibes-Regular", "FiraMono-Regular", "Exo2-Regular", "Raleway-Regular", "OpenSans-Regular", "Ubuntu-Regular", "Muli-Regular", "PlayfairDisplay-Regular", "Heebo-Regular", "CutiveMono-Regular", "BarlowCondensed-Regular", "ROGFontsv1.6-Regular", "NotoSansJP-Regular", "ArchivoNarrow-Regular", "PTMono-Regular", "FjallaOne-Regular", "JuliusSansOne-Regular", "Satisfy-Regular", "RobotoMono-Regular", "SourceSansPro-Regular", "Domine-Regular"],
[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0],
[[1.0, 0.0, 0.0],[0.0, 1.0, 0.0],[0.0, 0.5, 1.0],[1.0, 1.0, 0.0],[1.0, 0.0, 1.0],[0.0, 1.0, 1.0],[0.7, 0.5, 1.0],[0.8, 0.5, 0.6]]
]
var changeRate = 50; // change every x frames (I recomend adding )
var frequency = changeRate*thisComp.frameDuration;
var timeIndex = changeRate ? Math.floor(time/frequency) : 0;
output = setTextPerPropsDelimiterRandomOrder(sourceText, delimiter,textProperties,textPropertyValues,index+timeIndex);
// evaluate the expression string
eval(output)
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