[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Sergio – does all text layers should contain the same ‘text string’ during update, or it can vary?

The simplest way is:
1. Loop through all comps in the project.
2. Find ‘text layer’ type of layers.
3. If their name matches to ‘text1’ – update text source.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Adam, make sure you renamed the slider to ‘Progress’.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Mervin. Everything is relatively difficult without knowing your experience / knowledge base.

However, disregarding these missing pieces of information – there is no super easy way. Your referenced extension is an example, where TEAM of people works on a project. This alone indicates complexities involved, not to mention the scope of the tool itself.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Gavin, not sure whether you solved this or not. Assuming there are N shape paths in a single layer – do you want to select it in the project viewport, and expect ‘add keyframe’, to be able to reveal it with ‘U’?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Tommie, could you clarify this part?

But i rather have something where i can put in the price, for example 570, and tell the second slider to get this price and show only the 7

1. Where you want to add the ‘price’?
2. What ‘7’ stands for in your scenario?

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Ramiro, few questions:

1. How big your area text box is in relation to comp size?
2. How many lines it fits until reaching the boundaries, being full sized?

As far as I remember, if text-area box contains more text & lines than it can fit, those lines disappear at the bottom. With that said – downscaling it won’t help.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey, it depends on how you are going to make design. For example – the ‘ticks’. Are they going to be individual shapes or something made with repeater?

With that in mind, disregarding on design choices – you need to link all design elements to expression, which controls gap space between years data.

Think about it like this. You create 1920 year, with all its items and pre-compose it. Then, you duplicate it and a new layer’s X position is within this approach:

[previousLayerXPosition] + [sliderValue]

Which could be:
thisComp.layer(index-1).transform.position[0] + thisComp.layer("controls").effect("xGap-distance")(1)

Where ‘xGap-distance’ value – slider, in control layer which will affect gap’s distance. With such approach, you can relate slider’s gap value to a scale size. AND, that will give you X position reduce & increase, based on scale.

Let us know if this helps. Cheers.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Reed. I assume you don’t want decimals at all, and the comma is for thousands separation. If this correct:

1. Round end result to have no decimals:
Math.round('yourValueHere')

2. Everything else you need to know about counters, by Dan Ebberts:
https://motionscript.com/design-guide/counter.html

Cheers.

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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

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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[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Valentin – yes, it would be the simple answer. For texts – its kind of the only path to take. However, sometimes it is not necessary, to pre-comp, simply because in order to apply the changes, you need to enter a different composition.

Alternatively, you duplicate a layer, and link its main properties which you are going to alter to the original asset. In such way, pre-composing is avoided, and in case you need to make changes – doing so on original layer will update the duplicates too.

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