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Countdown from AD to BC
Hi everyone longtime reader of the forum first time poster.
As the title says im stuck on how to make a counter/slider combo to output a number with the letters AD on the left side of the number, when this number counts down past zero it shows a – sign and I’d like to hide or remove that and continue to count. Is it even possible to replace the AD with BC after it passes zero? -
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Sure, you would use a slider to create the numbers then input them into a text field using:
Math.round(Math.abs(thisComp.layer("Controls").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")))Round just rounds the slider number and Math.abs uses just absolute value of the number, ignoring whether it’s postive or negative.
For the AD/BC, you connect to the same slider and use an If/Else statement.
var date = ["AD","BC"]
myInput = thisComp.layer("Controls").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");if (myInput > 0) date[0] else date[1]
Here’s a simple project with it all worked out: 8822_datecountdown.aep.zip
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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