Typography with Geo Text Comp | TouchDesigner Tutorial

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[@postdaigo]

For those that can't afford to support Acrylicode's Patreon right now and want to follow along at 06:00
1) Create a Text DAT
2) Press A (or the star symbol in the lower right corner)
3) Write $ and your desired text after (e.g. $Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet)
- Be sure your text doesn't contain another $ symbol. If it does, choose another symbol to write at the beginning (e.g. %Lorem ipsum dolor $it amet)

4) Press A again (or the star symbol in the lower right corner)
5) Connect the Text DAT to a Substitute DAT
6) Drag and drop your Text DAT to the "before" and "after" box parameters of the Substitute DAT
- It will appear a blue text "op('text1')" inside the boxes
7) On the before parameter write: op('text1').text
8) On the after parameter write: op('text1').text.replace("","\t")[1:-1]
9) Connect the Substitute DAT to a Convert DAT
10) Connect the Convert DAT to a Transpose DAT
11) Connect the Transpose DAT to another Substitute DAT
12) On the before parameter write: $
- If you used another symbol at the step 3, write it instead (e.g. %)

13) On the after parameter write: text
14) Connect the second Substitute DAT to the Null DAT created before (null1)
- You can middle-click the Null DAT to see how many rows it has
* When you create the Constant CHOP, at 06:42, instead of 1000, write: op('null1').numRows - 1

[@markyoder.designs]

thank you for this! 🙏

[@grapessyrop6755]

but what do u do with the new constant? where do u connect it with the previous texts

[@markus_knoedel]

And again. I learned something new. This textgeo looks very promising. Thank you.

[@acrylicode]

Glad to hear it!

[@postdaigo]

Amazing tutorial as always!
I really appreciate your aesthetic choices and explanations.
Since most people watching TouchDesigner tutorials on YT are beginners, I wrote a little guide to create a text table in TD.
So, if they can't afford to support you right now, they can still follow along.
I hope you don't mind!

[@acrylicode]

Of course we don’t mind! Love a supporting community, thank you so much for contributing! ❤️

[@miriamrossi1370]

Hi, your tutorial is really helpful! I would like to know if it's possible to change the font color for each letter through dat or geo text or whatever

[@grapessyrop6755]

it sucks u didnt show how to do the textDat..