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Delay Type
Determines what sort of delay is applied to the animation. Available options include:
 Between Each Character: The more characters there are in your text, the longer
the animation will take to the end. A setting of 1 means the first character starts the
animation, and the second character starts 1 frame later, the third character starts 1
frame after the second, and so on.
 Between First and Last Character: No matter how many characters are in your text, the
animation will always be completed in the selected amount of time.
Clear All Character Styling
All character attributes will be reset to their original values.
Text Controls, Alignment, Transform, and Shading Tabs
In these tabs, the actual animation for the characters is done. Observe that simply changing a
value in these tabs will have no influence at all. The value must be animated for the
effect to show.
For a detailed description on the various parameters, see the Text+ node documentation.
Text Scramble
The Text Scramble randomly replaces the characters with others from a user definable set. It
can be applied by right-clicking into the Styled Text field of a Text+ node and selecting Text
Scramble. The Controls for the Text Scramble are then adjusted in the Modifiers tab.
Inspector
Text Scramble modifier Controls tab
Controls Tab
The Controls tab in the Text Scramble modifier is used to enter text and scramble it using the
Randomness control.The scrambled characters are taken from the Substitute Chars field at the
bottom of the Inspector.
Randomness
Defines how many characters are exchanged randomly. A value of 0 will change no characters
at all. A value of 1 will change all characters in the text. Animating this thumbwheel to go from 0
to 1 will gradually exchange all characters.
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