Hide/Show layer every other minute?

I want to alternate between two different layers being either shown or hidden every other minute of the hour. So I would suppose if #Dm# is divisible by 2 it could either be true or false. I’m just not sure how to write the conditional expression to achieve this in the opacity field.

Something to the effect of:
layer 1: $#Dm#/2==without a decimal?100:0$
layer 2: $#Dm#/2==with a decimal?100:0$

Thanks for your help!

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Welcome to the Community, I’m sure someone with some Math skills will be able to help you soon, but in the meantime…have fun creating :sunglasses:

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Hi thanks for the welcome.

I’ve managed to do it and turns out to be simple. It works for me but not sure if it was done in the right way:

$#Dm#/2==ceil(#Dm#/2)?100:0$

This will return opacity value based on every other minute of the hour.

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Awesome, well done :clap:

One of the ways to do this with a short formula is using the modulo expression: it returns the remainder of a division.
Layer1 opacity: $#Dm#%2>0?0:100$
Layer2 opacity: $#Dm#%2==0?0:100$

This example uses seconds instead, to illustrate the mechanism more quickly:

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Thanks!

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And yet another way to do it by odd or even minutes

Layer 1
Opacity: $(#Dm#%2)=0?0:100$
X or Y: $(#Dm#%2)=0?999:160$

Layer 2
Opacity: $(#Dm#%2)=1?0:100$
X or Y: $(#Dm#%2)=1?999:160$

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I had to go back and edit/fix the labels in that example that I created in haste… I’ve been up all night binge watching the wild adventures of Uhtred of Bebbanburg on Netflix!

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