Julian

Introducing Line Sizer 2.0 📏 Create slab type layouts procedurally in After Effects.

@fredberria Heck yeah bro

Finally! I am finalising the new version of Reach (in a responsive and customisable new format: an Extension). Many new built-in features will be included. Sneak peek: This work is in progress and will be released as a beta very soon. For #motiondesigners , with love.

@bruvimtired Adobe After Effects

what was your first IDE/code editor??

@_nicdean @ae_screens PosterizeTime(0) is the 🐐 of Source Text expressions! Couldn't live without it

@ae_screens For performance optimization, you can also set "posterizeTime(0);" at the top or use "property.valueAtTime(0)" to get the value from time 0 instead of current time. Only gonna work if you don't need animation. But these help alot

In order to enable per character styling in the latest version of Type, I have a rather complex expression going. It checks each style of each character and changes it if it does not match the style of the first character. This works, but can lead to performance issues. Anyone have a better workaround?

@andysrobots So satisfying to watch! Excited for release

Here's an #aftereffects extension project I'm hoping to release soon. 🤞🏻 A suite of curve tools with a focus on making it easy to create smooth 2D & 3D shapes and points using spline algorithms and applying them to shape paths, layer masks, motion paths, keyframes and more. ➿ Spline Types: 🔹B-Spline: Matches a Uniform NURBS curve visually and makes a great general-purpose spline. 🔹Catmull-Rom: Good for when you need a curve that closely follows its control‐polygon and passes through it's vertices. 🔹Natural Cubic: Great for motion paths, design elements with continuous flowing shapes or smoothing data/keyframe values. Like Catmull, it interpolates it's control vertices. 🔹Cubic Bézier: Same as AE’s default native Bézier spline for curves and motion paths. Convert any path to nulls, or selected layers to a curve. Every component is assigned a null for total control. Optional Tangent Continuity controls make it easy to automate tangency in different ways at each vertex. 📍Tracking Point Nulls You can generate points along curves for any spline type, with multiple methods to position and orient them on the curve surface. Orientation in 3D is handled in a way to prevent sudden flipping or twisting as a point traverses a curve. 🛠️ Other Bézier curve utilities: 🔸Generate Cubic Bézier segment from any four layers 🔸Quadratic Bézier segment from any three layers 🔸Arcs and circles 🔸Various Bézier Warp tools 🔸Split curves 🔸Offset curves 🔸Get curve-line intersections, curve-curve intersections and curve bounding boxes 🔸Curve fitting 🔸Get curve data such as speed or how much a curve is bending at any point and use it to drive animations 🔸Higher order Uniform NURBS (discrete) #aftereffects #splines #bezier

Experimenting with toCompVec() inside an expression selector to hide words that don't face the camera Lots of potential for kinetic type stuff

@fremox59 Your tool looks dope though! Actually have a similar setup from some time ago

@typographae I managed to do some quite advanced paragraph setups with Text Animators trickery... Did you check my FX TextFlow tool? aescripts.com/fx-textflow/

Developing Line Sizer 2.0 came with some challenges. One of them was trying to make it work with paragraph text. Sadly, I had to scrap it due to the unpredictable nature of text wrapping and some other issues.

@fremox59 Mamoun showed it to me a while back! I haven't got it though. Matter of fact, I tried multi-columning Line Sizer v1 already, but having it all dynamically on a single layer was slow as balls so it stayed a textperiment 😂

@broadcastGEMs Exactly, the scaling caused a post-expression reflow which was out of my control. And yeah I agree!

@typographae I think it's the nature of the effect rather than Paragraph Text. This is a major reason why we need Expression access to Paragraph Text dependencies.

Performance took a massive hit too since I had to use a helper function that loops through each word and detects where a virtual line break occurs in order to compose the text lines needed for further calculations. While that was fully working, the line-scaling would cause a post-expression reflow again.

@fredberria You're a real one Fred

Stop your thumb and check this:

V2 comes with these new features: - Multiple fonts & fill colors per word - Improved leading algorithm - Two leading modes: Default & Optical - Bakable via "Convert Expression To Keyframes" Grab Line Sizer for free now: typographae.gumroad.com/l/pqenl

Simply apply the preset et voilà—no manual scaling or multi-layer expression madness needed.

Introducing Line Sizer 2.0 📏 Create slab type layouts procedurally in After Effects.

@NLE_Ninja Glad to hear it held up in your work Kes!

@typographae Still have Line Sizer v1 from Gumroad and it was clutch when making onscreen gfx at my old job

Back to creating presets! Currently locking in v2 of Line Sizer, which is now powered by text style expressions.

@onderk_motion Thank ya!

@typographae That’s awesome

@AlexanderSkhirt Ty bro <3

@typographae Awesome 🙌

@fredberria Merci :)

@typographae Just amazing!

@luigimx_ Thanks Luis! Your Expression Selector video was one of my gateways into text expressions :)

@typographae Gorgeous!

@AutomotionTools That's the goal! No RTFM needed haha

@typographae Love how straightforward this looks to use!