• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Counting using a slider but adding a word after the numbers..

  Posted by Alex Dinnin on October 9, 2014 at 2:22 pm

  Basically..

  I need to create an expression that adds a word onto the end of a counting number

  I need it to go from 0 to 100 “MILLION” the text stays the same it’s just added onto the line

  so it counts 1 MILLION, 2 MILLION 3 MILLION etc etc

  So I’m using this expression for my counting numbers

  val = effect(“ZEROES”)(“Slider”);
  numDec = 0; // digits to right of decimal
  numDigit = 0; // digits to left of decimal
  if (val < 0) sign = “-” else sign = “”; s = Math.abs(val).toFixed(numDec); while (s.length < numDigit + numDec + 1) s = “0” + s; sign + s

  I just need to add the word MILLION at the end… is this possible ?? I can’t use a seperate layer as I have some crazy other expressions linking to this text layer ?

  Any ideas..

  thanks as always

  Alex

  Alex Dinnin replied 11 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Alex Dinnin

  October 9, 2014 at 2:30 pm

  I found something Dan had supplied earlier.. I’ve looked for blooming hours before resorting to asking for help..

  then as soon as I hit post.. I find this about ten seconds laters..

  s = Math.round(effect(“ZEROES”)(“Slider”)).toString();
  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);
  }
  outStr + ” MILLION”;

  Thanks for reading

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