smooth change any number 0 to 9 to next number ( affinity designer)

[OdieZ]

Is there a tutorial on how to change  (0 to 1) so that 0 change into 1 with 2 or 3 steps, with neon colours.

Want to use it for time keeping

[GarryP]

I don’t understand what you mean by “change into” or “2 or 3 steps” or where the “neon colours” come into it.
Can you give us more detail about what you already have and what you want to do?
If you know of an existing example then if you can give us a link to it – or attach it – that should help.

[OdieZ]

I am new to this.

1. Want to try it in neon colours
2.  I want to use numbers from 0-9
3.  I want to use it on a watch
4.  If I start with 0 it will then go to 1 and so on
5. So if it change from 0 to 1 or 2 to 3. I want it to chance smoothly from 0 into 1, not just 0 then 1 like normal.  It must look like 0 change into 1 with a few images (start with first image 0 then 0 and 1 together, then next image is then 1.  (I can see it in my head, do you understand what I am trying to accomplice with it)

Do not have screenshot

[GarryP]

Sorry but I still don’t understand what you want to do.

Are you trying to create some kind of animation? The Affinity applications have no animation functionality but they can help in creating frames to be animated elsewhere.
Are you trying to ‘morph’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphing the shapes of the characters in some way so that the shape of one character changes in some way to become the shape of another character?
I don’t understand how this will help with “time keeping” but that’s possibly a language translation issue.

Maybe someone else can help with this better than I can.
If you can give us a simple visual example of both what you have ‘before’ what you want to do and ‘after’ what you want to do then that might help.

[OdieZ]

Yes you are correct the word is morph (thank you).

Yes that is what I want to do.  

 

[GarryP]

Morphing one number shape into another number shape will probably be difficult – especially when one of the shapes has a ‘hole’ in it and the other doesn’t – and it will have to be done manually as the software cannot do this for you.
The process would also be dependent upon the font you want to use as each font has number characters (glyphs) that are drawn differently.
There may be tutorials out there somewhere which show you what to do but my guess is that, if they do exist, they will probably only show you how to ‘morph’ between a couple of easy-to-do shapes and you will need to figure out how to do it yourself for the characters you want to do it to.

Having said that, someone else may come along and give you a link to precisely what you need.

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

The Affinity applications have no animation functionality but they can help in creating frames to be animated elsewhere.

Animation software is quite likely to include a ‘tweening’ feature (automatically creating intermediate frames between the key frames drawn by the user) so I don’t see any advantage in trying to do any of that in the Affinity apps.

[GarryP]

Absolutely, and thanks for adding that, but I didn’t know, at the time of writing, what the OP was wanting to do or how they were going to export/use the results.
For example, if they are going to be producing raster output then ‘tweening’ might be a lot more difficult than with vector output.
I just didn’t want to totally put them off from using the Affinity applications if they could do – at least partially – what they wanted to do.