Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 1073)

• Press Return to finish an open shape at the last point you made.
• Double-click anywhere in the Canvas to define the last point of an open shape.
Note: You can press Esc at any time while drawing a shape to cancel the entire operation
and delete the shape.
Immediately after finishing a shape, the Shape HUD appears and the Adjust Control Points
tool is selected, which allows you to edit the shape you’ve just created. Press Shift-S to
change to the Select/Transform tool.
Controlling B-Spline Curvature
Each control point on a B-Spline path affects the curvature of the shape nearby. By default,
these curves are very rounded, but you can adjust the degree of roundness, even creating
corner points by adjusting the control point weight handle.
To modify the smoothness of B-Spline control points
1 Create a shape using B-Splines.
2 Command-drag one of the control points.
1073 Chapter 17 Using Shapes, Masks, and Paint Strokes