Random text – dates.

[Mylenium]

Apply a Slider expression control to your layer and rename it to “Randomizer”. Then use something like this on the source text property of a text layer:

randomizer=thisLayer.effect(“Randomizer)(“Slider”);
seedRandom(randomizer,true);

month_names=[“January”,”March”,”August”];
month_ID=Math.round(random(0,month_names.length));
month_select=month_names[month_select];

day_names=[“1″,”2″,”3″];
day_ID=Math.round(random(0,day_names.length));
day_select=day_names[day_select];

[day_select+” “+month_select]

This will create a new random combination whenever you change the slider value of the “Randomizer” (animate it to your taste). Fill in the other names as needed. For the fixed dates I’d simply hand-keyframe everything for simplicity’s sake.

Mylenium

[Pour Myl

[Dan Ebberts]

I haven’t tried it, but it seems like you’d want to use Math.floor() instead of Math.round() to avoid an out-of-range index.

Dan

[Tomek Suwalski]

Thank you, guys, you’re awesome.

You’re right Dan, there should be Math.floor() instead of Math.round() and there should be Month_ID and Day_ID in square brackets instead of Month_select and Day_select.

And can you recall any more precise method to control rate of change, cause slider is very unprecise, at most values it changes text every frame, and for example when set to 0,0 at frame 0 and 0,01 at frame 30 it changes every 2:05. It would be nice to have a slider correspond to frames, say every 1,0 at slider means one text change.