michiel | 2 weeks ago | 11 comments | 9 likes | 316 views
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A few small changes in the new score flipper effects:
-FX NUMBER renamed to FX SCORE (consistent with the name of the effect)
-Slider range FX SCORE set to [0, 25] (enough for the alphabet)
-Max number of digits increased from 2 to 4 (enough for basketball scores and years)(ScoreFlipper4 can handle 7 digits because it requires only a single render pass)
-3rd texture of the ScoreFlipper2 effect is used for the frame (a separate picture layer is no longer necessary)
-4th texture of the ScoreFlipper2 effect is used for the back of the cards (the start-counting-from 1 and use-the-top-left-of-the-1st-texture hack is no longer necessary)
Thank you all for your feature requests!
UPDATE
Since version 16.7.5, the score flipper effects now come with installer. You can find them in the BluffTitler\Media\Effects\Special folder.
Download media files (250.4 KB)
The effects have originally been designed for numbers only.
To write words:
-use a texture containing the whole alphabet (in the ZIP you can find an example: ABC.png)
-set the FX NUMBER OF PICTURES (RADIX) prop to 26
Now when you set the FX SCORE prop to 0, an A is rendered. 1 means B, 2 means C and so on: 25 means Z.
When writing words (set the FX DIGITS prop to the number of letters), this becomes more complex because you now have to switch from the decimal system to the 26-base system.
For example BIX is 907 because the B is the 2nd letter of the ABC, I is the 9th letter and X the 24th letter and (2-1)*26^2 + (9-1)*26^1 + (24-1)*26^0 = 676 + 208 + 23 = 907
This online tool automates it all:
dcode.fr...
Pretty cryptic, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remember that the effects have originally been designed for numbers only. Using a score flipper to write words is a hack 🐱💻
In the attached ZIP you can find 3 examples:
CScoreFlipper1abc_3digits.bt
CScoreFlipper2abc_3digits.bt
CScoreFlipper3abc_3digits.bt
michiel, 2 weeks ago
Thank you, Michiel. That's amazing. I need to learn.
shoji M, 2 weeks ago
Grazie, Michiel!
nonnogio, 2 weeks ago
Thanks Michiel for another update to ScoreFlipper. It's an effect we can use often.
lightads, 2 weeks ago
Thnx Michiel, Nice work.
Filip, 2 weeks ago
Grazie sei il migliore
Vincenzo Falcone, 2 weeks ago
Grazie infinite Michiel .
Pasqui, 2 weeks ago
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