How can I create a Split-Flap Type Display? I am looking for an effect, which works with fonts and not image files, so I can type in different words for the Split-Flap animation

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simple, but not easy…

you could start by making an asset that had a two section font (upper part of character, lower part of character)
one of it's parameters would be the character

then an asset that created a fixed (or variable) length frame in which to place the characters - and would copy one character asset to each point within that frame
one of it's parameters would be the character string - from that it would get the number of characters (plus spaces) per line and the character type (a, A, i, I, 4, 7 etc)

the trick would be to read the string and set the corresponding character asset to the right type…use python here.

as for the mechanics, you could go the rbd route - but simply animating it would be better and easier…

here's a little diagram: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Analog_clock_with_digital_display.png [upload.wikimedia.org]

Reminds me of an old project of mine:
http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?/topic/5661-per-point-animation-of-attributes/page__fromsearch__1 [forums.odforce.net]

Antoine kindly sent me a sweet POP solution to animate arbitrary words.

ui,

this sounds very complicated. rgd, would you tell me your secret? I'm not familiar with phyton :-(

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I believe my scene is attached to the mentioned thread - else it's probably lost in time and space.

Oh thanlks, that's great.

Meanwhile, I Just need one split flap, which runs from A to Z.

I understand most of your work, but I can't find the parameter, which determines the number of characters.

there's also a strange box between J and M.

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