expression for offseting characters with specific characters using character offset

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October 3, 2024
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I have a text animation I have done that uses the Character Offset. Currently it randomizes the text using all of the letters in the alphabet. I have Character Range set to Perserve Case and Digits. What I want is it to use the same letters I have in my source text so I don't get random letters. Lets say it says "WELCOME HOME" It would randomize the text using only the letters that exist in this text, not other letters like V or Z. I am a bit rough on my scripting as I have not done this in years with After Effects and every thing I have tried, including other examples I found, doesn't seem to work. Can anyone give me insight as to an expression that can do this? Thanks a lot!

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Airweb_AE

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source text expression:

value.split("").sort(() => Math.random() - 0.5).join("")

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tk!Author

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Appreciate it. I have a feeling that there is something wrong like a setting or such in AE because I repeated exactly as you have including the code and I get an error that says "Error at line 3 in property "Source Text" of layer 1 ("WELCOME HOME") in comp 'Comp 1"

< does not have a value

This type of error is what I have been getting on all the different expressions I have written / tried from others, which is why I am posting thinking I am doing something wrong. Any ideas?

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Airweb_AE

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You need to use the Javascript expression engine:

File > Project Settings... > Expressions

Mylenium

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Nothing to do with text animators. You would create a source text expression where the random characters are simply sampled from the actual string itself. I'm pretty sure there are examples here on this forum as this comes up regularly.

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tk!Author

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Thank you very much for your rapid answer. I saw the example on doing it inside the source text using sliders, when i tried it with my other animations it was erorring and I am sure I did something wrong so will try it again and I am sure i can get that working. I was hoping there was maybe a way to do it with the Character Offset text animator, as I was using about 3-4 of them with different ranges to selectively randomize and animate the text. If it doesn't work that way, I'll get it working with the source text. Thanks!

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