Changing text colour midway through a sentence with expressions

[Jamesjonw90]

I am trying to create a MoGrt for a client, and at one stage the client needs to input 2 values in the same text sentence, the issue I'm having is I need the second input to be a different colour.

My source text field will look something like this:

"input 1" + (different colour)"input 2"

I cannot seem to find the right way to word this in expressions, to change colour at the marked point. I know how to link the text input using other text layers but can anyone help me with the expression to change the text fill colour before the second input.

Thanks!

[Mathias Moehl]

As far as I know, you cannot control the color of individual letters with an expression on the source text. But you can do things like that with a range selector expression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgiaNEQit3g

[Jamesjonw90]

Thanks for the reply, I'll give it a shot and see how I go!

[Jamesjonw90]

Thanks, you really set me on the right path, here's my solution:

- I applied a fill effect using text animators to the final text layer

- Applied this expression to the final text layer referencing the two input text layers:

      thisComp.layer("Input 1").text.sourceText + " " + thisComp.layer("Input 2").text.sourceText

- I applied this expression to the range selector 'start' which is set to 'index' instead of 'percentage':

      thisComp.layer("Input 1").text.sourceText.length

- Set the end range to a very high number

Now the colour change is applied after the first text input.