Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 784)

Texture Subparameters in the Style Pane
You can use an image, movie, shape, layer, or group as the fill for text. You do this with
the Texture option in the Face controls of the Style pane.
For information on using the Texture controls, see Text Texture-Related Tasks .
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 glow appears in the text’s texture. 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.
The Texture controls allow you to adjust additional subparameters. If you are using an
image sequence or movie as the text’s texture source, you can specify the start frame for
the texture, or choose to hold a single frame for the texture. You can also adjust the
position of a texture that is applied to text so that it is offset in the text, but not
repositioned in your project. If an image used as a texture is cut off, you can specify the
edge behavior of the texture.
Use the slider or value
slider to set a start frame.
Drag or enter numbers in
the value sliders to
reposition the source
texture.
Click to lock texture
source to the frame set in
the Frame parameter.
Choose a wrap mode
from this pop-up menu.
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