Binary Character Offset

[mrousseaux]

Hello, I am trying to create dynamic binary text in the background of my project, kinda like the matrix... ish. Anyway I am unable to get the text to stay as 1's and 0's using character offset, is there an expression to limit what characters can be used so that i don't keep getting 2's . I have after effects CS3. thank you for your time!

[parabola01]

Are you using Particular to create 1 and 0 particles?
If so, you can use this method: http://www.videocopilot.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1010#p6142 just replace the alphabet with 1 and 0.

There is another method not using Particular later on in that thread, but I haven't tried it.

[robbieS]

i'm sure there is any easier or more efficient way to do this, but this is the quick expression i would use
(use the expression on the "source text" property)

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posterizeTime(10)
x=random(0,1)
Math.round(x)


What this means:
posterizeTime is saying how many times per second you want the expression to be executed. so change the 10 to whatever number you want. (without it the experssion will spit a number every frame)

random(0,1) is saying pick a number between 0 and 1

Math.round is telling it to round the random number up or down (without it you will get a bunch of decimals (i.e. 0.235234)

with all that said, Red Giant's text anarchy is designed to do specificly what your looking for.

hope it helps!

[mrousseaux]

I know this is a couple years to late, but I tried this in a now new project, and it worked great, thanks!