The Text Ticker widget allows users to easily add scrolling text to their Compositions. As the name suggests, this is useful for creating tickers within your Composition.
The Text Ticker Widget in action
To learn how to add a Widget to your Composition, click here.
Remember, any underlined widget properties can be connected to a Control Node or a Data Node.
Properties
As seen above, select the "Text Ticker" tab in the Property Panel to update this widget's following property types:
Text Box - Add whatever messaging you want in your ticker, here. Make sure to connect this to a "Text Area" type control node instead of a "Text" type control node. The "Text Area" control node allows you to separate message types with an enter (shift return).
Font - Various selectors to choose you font, font stye, italics and underline
Color - Color selector for text color
Letter Spacing (Pixels) - Spacing between letters
Word Spacing (Pixels) - Spacing between words
Height (%) - Height percentage of text within the Bounding Box
Advance per sec - How quickly the words advance/move across the screen per second (speed)
Direction - Direction of word movement across the screen (Right to Left OR Left to Right)
Padding - Text padding
Select the "Use" checkbox if you would like to use these properties
Image - Option to add an image to separate text when it repeats
Height (%) - Image height within the Bounding Box
Select the "Use" checkbox if you would like to use these properties
Direction (Degrees) - Shadow direction/angle
Distance (Pixels) - Shadow distance
Blur (Pixels) - Shadow blur
Color - Color selector for shadow color
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