Count from 0 to a billion

[Jefftheiride]

I looked. cant find anything. it limits how high i can gol. i want to go past 30 000. Im at aloss

[Jefftheiride]

so i didnt find anything . i just need to go from 0 to a billion. not 60 or whatever. i dunno how to by pass it. driving me nuts!

[Sam Moulton]

copy and paste the expression below to a source text layer with an expression slider added.

Found this on the web. can’t remember who I got it from.

s = effect(“value”)(“Slider”);
m = effect(“multiplier”)(“Slider”); //use for numbers greater than 1 million
v = s*m; //value of counter

function digits(Val, Digits)
{var n = Val.toString();

[Sam Moulton]

I left off some instructions.

there are two sliders
one renamed value
one renamed multiplier

Animate the value slider and or the multiplier. If you want 3 commas you’ll have to add some more code.

[Jefftheiride]

ok man thanks…but when i drop it in it gives me an error saying unknown value?

[Sam Moulton]

did you add the expression sliders?

[Colin Braley]

Create a new text layer. Add the following expression to source text. Adjust the variables to do whatever you need.

//begin code

startTime = 0; //seconds
endTime = 5; //seconds
beginCount = 0;
endCount = 2000;
hasCommas = true;
//–dont modify below here—————-
function addCommas ( s ){
if( s.length <= 3 ) return s; else return s.substring(0 , 3) + "," + addCommas(s.substring(3, s.length)); } function reverse( s ){ newStr = ""; for(i = s.length-1; i >= 0; i–)
newStr += s.charAt(i)
return newStr;
}

val = Math.round (linear(time, startTime, endTime, beginCount, endCount) );
if( hasCommas )
reverse (addCommas(reverse( val + “” )))
else
val

//end code

~Colin

[Colin Braley]

…Allthough if i was doing this myself for a project I would use sliders as mentioned above….allthough if you don’t know what sliders are it would prbably be faster to just paste in the expression i wrote.

[Wes Ball]

This is some fantastic code. Going straight into my library.

Is there a way to keep the spacing between letters consistent? When counting from say 500,000,000 to 1, the kerning is all over the place.

[Rene Guy-squad]

Thanks very much it was big help 🙂