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• Amount: A slider that becomes available when Custom is chosen from the Sequencing
pop-up menu, and defines the maximum amount that the animated parameter can
deviate from its animation value. For example, the following image shows a custom
animation of a glyph in the positive Y direction. When Amount is set to 50, the glyph
deviates no more than 50 pixels to the left or right of the animation path. The bold red
line shows the animation path, and the thinner red line displays the randomized path.
• Noisiness: A slider that adds an additional overlay of random variance. Higher Noisiness
values result in more erratic variations in the affected parameter.
• Seed: Click the Generate button to create an initial random seed for creating randomness
in the Variance parameters. To change the randomness results after you click Generate,
click the button again or enter a value in the field.
Fix: Available when Sequencing is set to Custom, this pop-up menu fixes the values
defined in the behavior to the start, end, or start and end of the behavior. There is also
an option to not fix the values. Variance must be greater than 0 for this parameter to
have any effect.
• Start Point: When variance is applied, the values defined in the Sequence Text behavior
(above the Add and Remove pop-up menus in the Behaviors Inspector) at the start and
end of the behavior are fixed to the first frame of the behavior.
In the following images, the text position is sequenced. Fix is set to Start Point.
• End Point: When variance is applied, the values defined in the Sequence Text behavior
(above the Add and Remove pop-up menus) at the start and end of the behavior are
fixed to the last frame of the behavior.
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