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Generating static text - Adobe Animate Tutorial

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Generating static text

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- Animate makes it very easy to include bits of text in your project, for all sorts of uses. There are a number of different choices when it comes to types of texts we can use, in any given project. Here we'll look specifically at static text. So we need to make some room for our text. So let's expand, a bit of what we have here, inside the timeline. And right now we'll go to six seconds, we're going to need a little more time, maybe around 10 seconds to actually include text and other features. So selecting every frame at 10 seconds, across each layer, we'll go ahead and insert frames up to that point. We'll also go ahead, and right above the shimmer layer, create a new layer, and rename this as message. We're going to want our message text to show up around frame 150, around the five second mark. So let's go ahead and insert a new key frame right there. Note that we could also, insert a blank key frame if we wanted to. But inserting a key frame, will insert a blank key frame in this place, simply because the previous key frame, has no content in it. Let's do some additional cleanup before we insert our text. I'm going to create a folder, by clicking the new folder icon. Let's rename this folder to beginning. And what we'll do is select, every one of our layers, by holding Shift and clicking across each one, and just dropping them all into the beginning folder. Now we could do this one by one as well, so if you need to, you can always do it manually. We can lock down that entire layer, and collapse it so it's really easy to focus on the new content we're creating. So on the blank key frame, at the five second mark, frame 150, let's go ahead and select our text tool, which is right here. And in the tool properties, we want to create static text. Notice there are a couple of additional text options, but static text is what we want to create, for this project. Static text cannot be changed when you're actually running the project, whereas if you were to choose dynamic text, you could change that with code. Same thing with input text. For a character, let's go ahead and use an Adobe Font. I want to use a font called Europa, and we'll use Europe-Bold, this can be downloaded from Adobe Fonts. Let's choose 96 points, make it nice and big. And for a color, we'll choose black. Now to create a text object on the stage, all we need to do is click and drag. And then we can type in our text. (keyboard clicks) I'm going to type in the text nighttime thoughts. And, there are some additional things we can do in our paragraph settings, such as center the text. So I'm going to do that right now, and we can also align the text object to the center of the stage horizontally, and vertically. Using the arrow keys on the keyboard, if I hold down the shift key, it'll actually allow us to shift the text up, with the up arrow key, 10 pixels at a time, until we're around this area here. That looks pretty good. Now static texts like this is great, but of course we can animate it as well. We'll explore that next.

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