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  Randomly loop through 0-9 and stop at a given number

  Posted by Suneth Jayalath on October 6, 2021 at 9:17 pm

  I have very little knowledge about AE and following is my requirement.

  I want to randomly loop through 0-9 for 10 seconds and stop at a number I decide and I want to do this for a 6 digit number.

  ex: Say the number I want to display is 645237. What should happen is in the beginning all 6 digits start to display random numbers and after 10 seconds left most number stops at 6 and others continue to randomly display numbers. after next 10 seconds (total 20 seconds from the start) 2nd digit from the left should stop at 4 etc..

  I checked few YT tutorials which use slider / rotation method and they are generating 2-3 digits or even larger numbers instead of looping through 0-9.

  I also tried a tutorial which shows type 0-9 vertically and then using masking to only display one number but looks like I have to vertically type 0-9 may be 100s of time to rotate it at a reasonable speed for 10 seconds.

  Is this a fairly simple thing to do or does it require expert level knowledge? If it is a fairly simple can some one please guide?

  Thanks in advance.

  Patrice Wisniewsky replied 4 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply

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  Patrice Wisniewsky

  October 19, 2021 at 5:16 pm

  I would create an text layer and add an Character Offset Animator.

  Set the Start Range Selector to 6.

  Animate the End Range Selector starting with 0 to 6 and toggle hold the keyframes

  apply an Expression to Character Offset and type

  time*10

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