• Adobe After Effects

  Number Increasing Automatically

  Posted by Marcio Souza on October 14, 2013 at 4:07 am

  I have seen some posts here but none of them has the answer I am looking for.
  I want to make a number increasing from 0 to 28 357 561, if possible with $ at the beginning. I have seen some tutorials on youtube but all of them just teach you how to increase the number up to 1000000, if it is possible I want to keep the spaces every 3 numbers.

  Thanks

  John Cuevas replied 12 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  John Cuevas

  October 14, 2013 at 1:56 pm

  Create a text layer(shift+cntl+alt+T) and make it right justified. Add the effect Expressions Control > Angle Control to the effect.

  Twirl open the text layer and alt click the source text stopwatch to open the expression dialogue and add the following expression(courtesy of Dan Ebberts). I used comma’s instead of spaces, but if you want spaces in the line “outStr += “,” + s.substr(-i*3,3)” replace the comma in quotes with space: numDecimals = 2;
commas = true;
dollarSign = true;
dur = 4;
s = effect("Angle Control")("Angle").value.toFixed(numDecimals);

  prefix = "";
  if (s[0] == "-"){
  prefix = "-";
  s = s.substr(1);
  }
  if(dollarSign) prefix += "$";

  if (commas){
decimals = "";
if (numDecimals > 0){
decimals = s.substr(-(numDecimals + 1));
s = s.substr(0,s.length - (numDecimals + 1));
}
outStr = s.substr(-s.length, (s.length-1)%3 +1);
for (i = Math.floor((s.length-1)/3); i > 0; i--){
outStr += "," + s.substr(-i*3,3);
}
prefix + outStr + decimals;
}else{
prefix + s;
}

  I made an example project if anything is unclear: 6633_moneycounter.aep.zip

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  Thinkck.com

  “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
  —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.
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  Marcio Souza

  October 15, 2013 at 3:30 am

  Hey John,

  Thanks a lot, that is exactly what I was looking for and I could not find anywhere.
  You are the best!
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  John Cuevas

  October 16, 2013 at 12:29 am

  It was mostly Dan Ebberts who did, but I’m glad I was able to pass it on.

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  Thinkck.com

  “I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
  —THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

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