Text reveal word by word?

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Hi all,

Could someone help me figure out how I can get a text to slowly reveal word by word, with words showing up in random order but maintaining their original place within the sentence?

Thanks a lot!

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Hi @Tasos_A,

Text COMP. Geo Text COMP as well as the Text TOP have the ability to use a Specification DAT for manually positioning and coloring characters or words.

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Now you could drive the fontalpha column with your random values - possibly using a Phaser CHOP.

Check out the OPSnippets on the mentioned operators for more details on their functionality.

For placing text, you can utilize the python method .textWidth available to all 3 operators. For each word, get the width perhaps in a Eval DAT, then adding a fixed space. This should make it possible to layout the text a bit more automatically.

Hope this helps
cheers
Markus

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