heya!
so, i’m building a show where in one section, a perform will type onto a screen which is displayed via a projector. i’m using a textCOMP because it is the closest to a text editor/typer that i can find.
because the text is being shown against some pretty vibrant graphics, i wanted to add a drop shadow so that the text stands out. because of the limited options inside textCOMP to add effects, what I ended up doing was to use a opview TOP to grab the display of textCOMP, added effects, then comped it back onto the ./bg.
however, i’ve noticed that the opview doesn’t update while the COMP is in focus and being typed in. is there anyway around that, and make the opview always update? i tried to add op('opview1').cook() in the textCOMP’s callback, but it didn’t do anything.
any insights on what i can do differently? thank you!
the network:
and the current effect with the opview not updating. the drop shadow applies as soon as i click out of the panel, but sadly not while text is being typed.
