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I want to make an animation of a text cursor going back and forth. Caret animated using keyframes Right now, I'm using a plane and animating it's position using keyframes, which is imprecise and annoying.

I have tried inserting a pipe | character in the middle of the text, but that pushes the text forwards/backwards which is not what I'm looking for.

Caret animated with geometry nodes using a pipe character

Is there a way to animate a text cursor in a way shown above (using a position value), but so text doesn't get pushed forwards/backwards?

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Maybe this can help...

I'm using a mesh island node to individually select each of the characters, and then using a bounding box node to find where the cursor should be relative to that character. I'm then setting my cursor x position to match, with some extra scene time nodes to make it blink :) the nodes the cursor

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  • $\begingroup$ It works great, but unfortunately it skips spaces... $\endgroup$
    – Martysh12
    Apr 4 at 22:31

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