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  • how to make a 4.500.000 number counter??

    Posted by Daniel Persson on February 13, 2017 at 4:47 pm

    I read around and I can only find tutorials with commas, or other weird stuff. I need dots + 7 digits for my counter.
    4.500.000 is the number I need to count up to.

    Richard Garabedain replied 9 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Kevin Camp

    February 13, 2017 at 5:36 pm

    you can likely use the expressonthat you have, but find the “,” and change it to “.”

    here’s a really good ‘universal’ counter: https://motionscript.com/design-guide/counter.html

    but you’ll want to change this line:

    outStr += “,” + s.substr(-i*3,3);

    to:

    outStr += “.” + s.substr(-i*3,3);

    to make the commas into periods.

    Kevin Camp
    Art Director
    KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

  • Walter Soyka

    February 13, 2017 at 5:40 pm

    Should it pad with zeroes? In other words, should it start as

    A) 0
    or B) 0.000.000

    Walter Soyka
    Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
    @keenlive   |   RenderBreak [blog]   |   Profile [LinkedIn]

  • Daniel Persson

    February 13, 2017 at 7:00 pm

    it kinda works but it leaves a dot in the end which looks weird, and the the way the numbers jump around doesn’t make it look very nice overall for a case/presentation.

  • Daniel Persson

    February 13, 2017 at 7:02 pm

    it should stay centered and go up, basically just what looks nice and cosistent. But i might have to drop it as I have a very close deadline.

  • Walter Soyka

    February 13, 2017 at 7:08 pm

    The jumping is a function of what typeface you’re using. You might consider using a monospaced typeface to keep it rock-steady.

    Walter Soyka
    Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
    Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
    @keenlive   |   RenderBreak [blog]   |   Profile [LinkedIn]

  • Richard Garabedain

    February 14, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    his answer of padding it with zeroes is the best way…stat with 000000000 and count up so no number jumping

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