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Text align script assistance
Iam making a 5:00 countdown.. Everytime I have to manually adjust the text to hold the colon “:” in a Fixed position so that the text doesn’t keep wobbling left and right for every next digit. Can someone help me with a script that can hold “:” in Fixed position while counting down as well.
I use this script for countdown that I found from creative cow
rate = -1;
clockStart = 300;
delay = 2;function padZero(n){
if (n < 10) return “0” + n else return “” + n
}
t = Math.max(time – delay,0);
clockTime = Math.max(clockStart + rate*(t – inPoint),0);t = Math.floor(clockTime);
min = Math.floor((t%3600)/60);
sec = Math.floor(t%60);
min + “:” + padZero(sec)Thanks
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Hey Ruben, is there a possibility for you to use a different font? It could be your life saviour, to change font into monospaced-type, where each character will keep the same width. As a result – no tedious movements ☺
IF its not possible, then the second easiest option could be break down your result expression into two individual text layers, with ‘:’ layer in between. Set the minutes paragraph to be right sided, seconds – left sided.
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Thanks Thomas..
I do a lot of countdowns… Sometimes I am lucky to use a monospace font.. Most of the time I had to use other types…
I guess the second idea would work well for all types of fonts…
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