[Rod Kesselring]

Excellent!! I saw something about that somewhere but forgot it. It worked like a charm. Thanks so much for the help.

[Rod Kesselring]

Dave,

Thanks CC Cylinder did the trick It actually works really well. the only issue I have now is the bouncing LED’s are bouncing to fast. I need some way to slow it down. the LED’s change every frame I would love to see if I could slow that process down. Any ideas?

the formula I am using is on a text layer and it is very simple.

alphabet=”DEFGHIJ”;
alphabet[Math.floor(random(alphabet.length-1))];

this is in a precomp that I then duplicate several times and time remapped so they all start at a different point.

[Rod Kesselring]

Dave you are so correct. Sorry should have been more clear. I found a font that does the bars and I worked out a random generation of the led’s bouncing. by using an array and random generator. but getting it to loop and the cylindrical surface idea is still stumping me. I don’t know if the way I generated the LED’s was the best method for that tyoe of animation to make loop able. but that is what i have so far. Thanks for the response. Any help would be great.