Typewriter text effect on a paragraph

[hellocatfood]

I've created a typewriter text effect by using the diminish effect to control the opacity of the letters. It works well on a single line of text.

Screencast.from.2024-08-31.18-27-08.mp4

However, if I have a paragraph of text it doesn't behave as I expected.

Screencast.from.2024-08-31.18-27-46.mp4

Is there currently a way to do this effect on a paragraph of text or do I have to create a new text object for each line of text?

Attached is my friction project

typewritertext.zip

[rodlie]

Text effects are currently limited to one line.

You could just use masking with the blend modes:

friction-mask-text-2024-08-31_19.52.19.mp4

[rodlie]

friction-mask-text-2024-08-31_20.23.42.mp4

[hellocatfood]

Thanks for the suggestion. The reason I avoid using a mask for the typewriter text effect is because, depending on the speed of the mask, on some frames you can see partial letters which you wouldn't get on an actual typewriter (opacity/visibility is more like a binary in that sense).

[rodlie]

You could also animate the actual text input:

friction-mask-text-2024-08-31_21.28.06.mp4

Note that the font widget is not properly in sync when you scroll the timeline, this will be fixed.