hello, this is *old* but has some options for basic text type-on handling
spk-typeon-0.2.qtz
Description: application/quartzcomposer
for anything visually sophisticated, like fading and scaling letters on, you will need something like http://www.tobyz.net/tobyzstuff/diary/2008/02/spk-stringtoimagestructure hope that helps, love to see if anybody else has looked at this kind of stuff since. toby On 21 Jan 2011, at 16:20, Charlie Francis wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been trying to look for a type writer effect. I'm sure I've seen one > somewhere before, but I can't seem to find it. > > So I tried to make one! Here are my two attempts. > > The one on the left "Char by Char" uses the String Truncate function to put > each character up at a time, the problem with this is that when a long word > comes up near the boundary of the box it gets wrapped half way through > printing. > > I came up with the one of the right, using the Bars Swipe Transition. It > takes the amount of lines produced combined with a constant of 0.75 (this was > just a rough guess) to calculate the width of the bars. I still have to do > some calculations to work out a constant per line speed, but it's ok for now. > > > Is there a way to combine these two effects? So that the characters write on > one by one, as in the first example, whilst keeping the singular image of the > second. Or has anyone created such an effect before. > > > > This is part of a bigger plan, to queue the text coming in, and have multiple > messages, kind of like a chat box. with old messages scrolling out of view. > > Thanks, > Charlie > <write_on_effect.qtz> _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list (Quartzcomposer-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/lists%40tobyz.net > > This email sent to li...@tobyz.net
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