Apple Motion 2 - Manual (Page 492)

492 Chapter 7 Using Text
Note: The Parameter behavior can be applied to any parameter that appears in the
Apply To pop-up menu.
5 Click the Play button (or press the Space bar).
6 In the Randomize parameters, do the following:
• Increase the Amount slider to approximately .5.
• Decrease the Frequency to approximately 5 so the color changes occur less often.
• Set Noise to 0 so the color changes are smoother.
When the color tag with the applied Parameter behavior is selected in the Inspector,
the Behaviors icon appears next to the color channel parameters. If the Randomize
behavior were only applied to the Red channel, the Behaviors icon would only appear
next to the Red parameter.
Using a Texture Fill
You can use an object—an image, movie, shape, or layer—as the fill for a text object
with the Texture option in the Face controls of the Inspector.
The texture parameters respect any filters applied to the source image, but not any
transforms applied to the image. For example, if the image used as the source texture
has a glow filter applied, the result of the glow filter appears in the texture applied to
the text object. If the image used as the source texture has been scaled, moved, or
contains applied behaviors, the result of the transforms does not appear in the applied
texture.
To apply a texture to a text object:
1 Select the text object.
2 In the Inspector (press Command+3), click the Text tab.
3 Click Style.
4 Click the “Fill with” pop-up menu, then choose Texture.
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