Flipboard (Blender setup)

Adding/replacing chars

The board itself doesn't really care what any of the tiles has written on it. All it tracks is what index to show on the texture (Progress) and how many slots are (Total).

You can add new elements by drawing them on and cranking up the total. They should appear at the end! You can also use any size of texture, i made a small one because i just wanted to see this working.

If you wanna go over 64 chars...maybe don't but you could change the logic inside to break up the texture in 16 parts instead i guess? you may not wanna do that bc of

Animation

You animate 'Progress' from a starting point to an ending point and thats that. UNLESS

An actual flipboard works by flipping over every single card until it reaches the desired text. To recreate this effect there's two biggies you gotta keep in mind

1. Digits only move one way (low to high on normal gravity). they can't go backwards. To animate them changing you need to do a lap around the full set of numbers (You can do this easily at the end by dragging everything on the dope sheet and moving them by whatever your total is)
2. Digits move at different speeds (i think? feels right) like, going from A-B-C should be faster than going A-B-C-D-E-F-...-Z because its flipping through less characters. I managed this by just sorta aligning my lines on the dope sheet. It's not perfect but it's not like the real ones are either.