Common text controls: Color & Rotation controls

These controls show up in the Main Setup, Characters or Character Attributes groups. This is where you set up the basics of how the individual characters look and behave. On this page, we discuss controls for Color and Rotation styling.

What are common controls? Many of the Text plug-ins share parameters that behave the same. To avoid having to repeat these definitions, we cover them once here. If a parameter has special attributes in a plug-in, it will be further explained on that plug-in's manual page.

 

 

 

Character Rotation, Randomness

Rotates all characters by the amount specified, measured in degrees.

 

In Font Changer, at left, Character Rotation at 10. At right, Randomness at 30.

 

 

Character Spin, Randomness

The amount that each character gets rotated per frame, measured in degrees.

 

In Text Grid, at left, Character Spin at 20. At right, Randomness at 40.

 

 

Vertical Writing checkbox

Displays your text going from top to bottom instead of left to right. The text is automatically centered along the center of the stream. There’s no way to change this center alignment, which is probably good because any other alignment results in text that is difficult to read and not very useful.

 

In Cool Text, left to right, Vertical Writing is off (the default) and turned on.

 

 

Color

Sets the color the text. That’s it. Just makes your text pretty colors.

 

 

Random Color
Frequency of Random Color

Color defines the color of text characters. Random Color and Frequency of Random Color makes the color more interesting.

Frequency applies the Random Color to the text characters based on a percentage. At 0%, no Random Color is used. The higher the Frequency, the more characters that will take on the Random Color. If Frequency is 100%, the entire grid will be the Random Color.

If Random Color is exactly the same as the normal Color, the Frequency slider won’t appear to have any affect since it’s replacing one color with the exact same color.

If Random Color is set to the color of your background, it will make the characters with the Random Color invisible. Well... not really, but if you have a black background, and Random Color is to black, you can't see the black characters on a black background. This can create some interesting effects.

 

Set Random Color to the background color to make some characters invisible.

 

 

Alt Color, Alt Color Tolerance

Alt Color causes some characters to get a different color than other characters. You control how much of the text is this second color by adjusting the Alt Color Tolerance. If Alt Color Tolerance is 100%, then all the text will be colored by the Alt Color. If Alt Color Tolerance is 50%, then half the characters of the text will be the Alt Colorn.

 

In Cool Text, Alt Color Tolerance at 50.

 

 

Alt Color ROC (Rate of Change), Alt Color ROC Randomness

Provides a way to add color randomly to the text. If left at its default, Rate of Change will cause characters to turn a different color randomly every frame. The Rate of Change parameter allows you to control how frequently characters change color. It is set in frames. This determines how frequently the characters change between one color and another.

TIP: You can create a blinking effect by changing which characters the Alt Color ROC affects.

 

 

Opacity, Opacity Randomness

Sets the Opacity level of the text and how randomly that Opacity applies itself.