Apple Motion 5.1.1 User Manual
Page 861
Chapter 20
Shapes, masks, and paint strokes
861
•
Color Over Stroke: A gradient editor defining the range of color of the stroke, beginning with
the leftmost color in the gradient, and progressing through the range of colors until reaching
the rightmost color at the end of the stroke. Gradual color changes do not appear in each dab,
but only across the stroke as a whole. An opacity bar appears at the top of the gradient editor.
For information on using gradient editors, see
on page 135.
•
Color Range: A gradient editor that appears when the Stroke Color Mode is set to Pick From
Color Range. Use it to define a range of colors to randomly tint the stroke’s paint dabs. The
direction of the gradient colors is not relevant, only the number of colors that appear in
the gradient. The Color Range parameter has the same controls as the Color Over Stroke
parameter. For information on using gradient editors, see
on page 135.
•
Color Repetitions: A slider, available when you choose Color Over Stroke from the Stroke
Color Mode pop-up menu, that increases the number of times the gradient is repeated over
the stroke.
•
Spacing Over Stroke: A mini-curve editor that lets you customize the spacing of the dabs over
the length of the stroke. You can create a curve that gradually increases the dabs’ spacing over
the length of the stroke, create a curve that varies the dabs’ spacing over the length of the
stroke, and so on. Select or add a keyframe in the graph to make changes to the Spacing Over
Stroke and Stroke Length parameters.
In the following illustrations, the default Spacing Over Stroke value of 100% in the mini-
curve editor creates an even distribution of the dabs—based on the value set in the Spacing
parameter in the Style pane. For more information on using the mini-curve editor, see
on page 482.
67% resize factor