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Gas Pump Price/Gallon Expression
I’ve had the idea to make a comp that would show the rise in price / gallon at the pump. Can this be done by slider controls? One that sets the price per gallon and/or the amount of gasoline.
Using Dan Ebbert’s universal currency / count expression I’ve slightly modified the expression code for a time slider and total amount of gas, however I need the total amount to equal the number of gallons times price at the time. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
numDecimals = 2;
commas = true;
dollarSign = true;
beginCount = 0;
endCount = effect("PRICE SLIDER")("Slider")
dur = effect("TIME")("Slider");t = time - inPoint;
s = linear (t, 0, dur, beginCount, endCount).toFixed(numDecimals);prefix = "";
if (s[0] == "-"){
prefix = "-";
s = s.substr(1);
}
if(dollarSign) prefix += "$";if (commas){
decimals = "";
if (numDecimals > 0){
decimals = s.substr(-(numDecimals + 1));
s = s.substr(0,s.length - (numDecimals + 1));
}
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);
}
prefix + outStr + decimals;
}else{
prefix + s;
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4 Replies
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I don’t know that that expression is necessarily the right tool for the job. What is it that you’re trying to do, exactly? (What does the finished product do?)
Dan
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Preferably I want to display the readout of a gas pump. If gas was 1.99/gallon and I used 10.0 gallons it would display the total cost and the amount of gas used.
Basically the example attached from VideoHive but controlled by slider parameters to set price per gas and total fuel.
Dylan Harrelson
Digital Media Professional -
I think I would put sliders for price and gallons per second on a null layer named “controls” and then have a text layer with this expression for the cost:
price = thisComp.layer(“controls”).effect(“PRICE SLIDER”)(“Slider”);
galPerSec = thisComp.layer(“controls”).effect(“GAL/SEC SLIDER”)(“Slider”);
(price*galPerSec*time).toFixed(2);and another text layer with this expression for the gallons:
galPerSec = thisComp.layer(“controls”).effect(“GAL/SEC SLIDER”)(“Slider”);
(galPerSec*time).toFixed(3);Dan
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This works great Dan. Very much appreciated.
Dylan Harrelson
Digital Media Professional
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