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Offline mmais

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Text Tutorial
« on: February 28, 2019, 06:29:17 AM »
Is there some place where I can view an updated tutorial on how Text effect works? I have found this older tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pewwAxJkdYk&t=352s

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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2019, 08:00:42 AM »
No that effect should be easy to figure out except for the weird countdown formats.
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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2019, 08:05:18 AM »
Guess I will have to play with it more can not seem to get it to work
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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2019, 08:14:47 AM »
So you don't get any text at all?  You typed text into the box?  You picked a color that works on that model?
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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2019, 10:09:38 AM »
The video you posted is for xschedule. Is that the text effect you want?


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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2019, 01:00:19 PM »
Quote from: keithsw1111 on February 28, 2019, 10:09:38 AM
The video you posted is for xschedule. Is that the text effect you want?

NO that is the only tutorial I found & knew there had to be an easier way to do text.
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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2019, 01:11:41 PM »
Quote from: Gilrock on February 28, 2019, 08:14:47 AM
So you don't get any text at all?  You typed text into the box?  You picked a color that works on that model?

Below are two shots of my setup. I get the tree to turn red but no text.
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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2019, 01:28:26 PM »
That’s because the red overwrites the text. You should have the text on top of the red.


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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2019, 01:35:37 PM »
Quote from: keithsw1111 on February 28, 2019, 01:28:26 PM
That’s because the red overwrites the text. You should have the text on top of the red.

I change things around & now the tree will not even turn red.

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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2019, 01:56:54 PM »
You seem to be trying to do more than just a simple Text effect.  Why do you need 2 layers?  What do you want it to look like?  You've got the blending mode in that screenshot set to "1 is mask".  Change it back to "Normal" and the Text should show up.
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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2019, 02:36:50 PM »
What I want to do is have the word STOP vertical on a red pixel tree. I deleted the red & changed to normal & nothing. Has to be simple I guess I am making way harder then it should be.
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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2019, 09:26:24 PM »
First try a smaller font size just to see if something shows up
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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2019, 05:41:16 AM »
I tried font size from 8-18 with no results.
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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2019, 09:24:34 AM »
Do you have a color set for the text. (with the text effect highlighted on your tree, what color is checked in the color window?)

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Re: Text Tutorial
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2019, 10:34:13 AM »
Here is what my page looks like. Still no text.
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