Slot Machine Reels

[Steve Roberts]

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[Tom Daigon]

Yes Steve, I just found Josh Fergs post. Im not sure I understand his
description of “bezier warping over the cylinder”. He basically describes
creating a strip of icons in PS (3000 x 100 I think). Then warping and displacing them. I will see if I can experiment with the bezier warp process when I get home from editing at work (Avid DS wont do this as well as AE,
and at least I can play with AE at HOME!).
Thanks for the response.

[Joshua Ferg]

Las –

Try this – haven’t gone through it, but it’ll help.

If you want an easier solution – depending on what you’re using avoing the offset filter. If you’re using multiple icons, you’ll need to create a long, thin PSD file you can bring in to the comp. Bring this into you’re comp and place the bottom at the top, offscreen, hit a Pos. KF – jump ahead 4 secs or so and bring the top to the bottom. Apply motion blur and try this expression, taken for Dan Ebbets site (https://www.motionscript.com/):

freq = 5;
amplitude = 35;
decay = 1.0;

y = amplitude*Math.cos(freq*time*2*Math.PI)/Math.exp(decay*time);
position + [0,y]

Precomp. Duplicate 3 times and apply a rectangular mask to each.

Precomp again and you can position teh whole thing freely.

The warping will give it an added diminsion – try bulge before Bezier Warp.

Hope this helps.

[Steve Roberts]

Sorry, I meant “odometer”. 🙂

[Tom Daigon]

Thanks alot Joshua. I played around alittle after a session today using most of the approach you described.
I got an offset by just varying the in point y position of 2 of the reels. I have a client tommorrow
who wants this effect so I will explore the use of the expression at a more comfortable moment.
I appreciate your insightful info!

[Jason Jenkins]

LiveType has a couple of LiveFonts that are great for this effect “right out of the box”.

[Jimmy Brunger]

Has anyone had any success using that decay expression with Motion tile instead of Offset? Mo Tile seems to work alot bette with the abilty to accept motion blur, but when I add that expression to the tile center property it goes a bit mental!

I’m not very experienced with expressions, so I could just be doing something simple wrong.

Thanks.