Dissolving text effect

vvvv beta question
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Hey y’all!

I am trying to create a text cloud with different animation states.
I attached a simplified version of it so you guys can have a look.

From the state you see in my patch i am now trying to split up the text lines into single characters and rearrange them randomly in space. Some kind of exploding effect.

To do that i think i need the lines from the feed split into chars right from the beginning in order to later give every char new xyz coordinates.
So i tried to ‘emulate’ the text lines using split(string) and linear spreads but then the spacing between the letters is ugly.

Any ideas how to achieve this in a nice way?

rss_cloud.v4p (17.5 kB)

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there is GlyphInfo (String) to do such things… you could feed it with the alphabet to get the width of each character and then select them according to your word/text…

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thanks ton, I’ll try that.