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Working with Left String
Instructor Julian Field demonstrates the Left String node in Cinema 4D’s Xpresso system. The node extracts a specified number of characters from the beginning of a string, providing the counterpart to workflows that isolate characters from the middle of text.
Part 41 of the series
The tutorial runs for almost 20 minutes and forms part 41 of Field’s Xpresso series. It is the second of two lessons on String nodes. The first instalment uses the Mid String node to build a news ticker in roughly 13 minutes.
Artists should test the node with empty strings, changing character counts and non-ASCII text before relying on it in a procedural template.
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