From the course: Typography for Motion Designers in Cinema 4D
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Basic overview of the MoText object - CINEMA 4D Tutorial
From the course: Typography for Motion Designers in Cinema 4D
Basic overview of the MoText object
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to take a really high-level look at the MoText object. So if you've never used it, then don't worry. We'll get into the ins and outs later in the course. So first let's create a MoText object. We can do that in a number of ways but I'm going to come over to the MoGraph menu and just choose the MoText object here. You could also click and hold here and just grab it by clicking on this icon. Now we can start to work in the object tab. The first thing we're probably going to do is change what it says here. Selecting the word text we can then change this to anything we like. I'm just going to change it to motion design. One thing to note, when you're typing in the text field, if you press Enter you'll move on to a new line. To actually commit to the type, you'll have to click out of the box. And I'm just going to move the camera to reframe this, it looks like I've made a little mistake…
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