• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Repeater with text that changes based on expression

  Posted by Scott Sumpter on September 28, 2020 at 4:51 pm

  This might be a little difficult to describe. Right now I’ve got a clock that’s adjustable using a slider for the end value in the first image below. I’m wondering if I could label each tick with a division of the total number.

  I’ll have to figure out how to divide the number of ticks so they only show whole numbers. I’ve got a rough idea how I can accomplish that, but what I can’t figure out is how to essentially repeat a text object around the clock, and have it alter each iteration to be a division of the total time.

  I’m repeating the ticks based on the second image, but I can’t figure out how to attach a text object to that, let alone how to have each iteration use a different source text based on which iteration it is.

  Any help would be super appreciated!

  

  

  Tomas Bumbulevičius replied 5 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tomas Bumbulevičius

  September 30, 2020 at 10:11 am

  Hey Scott, few things to clarify:
  1. Eventually what you want to achieve, is to make N texts, where each is labeled with a x/N of tick value, where x is current tick index. Correct?
  2. Is number of ticks going to change anytime? Why it could change, and is it possible you want it to be animated?
  3. The reason being you want this to be implemented, to avoid manual repositioning of texts, as well as manual values addition?

  Cheers!

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