Fusion ToolTorial - Text+ part three Video Lecture | Eyeon Fusion: A Practical Hands On Course - Professional Skills

hello and welcome to part three of our
tutorial about the text tool in this one
we want to concentrate on the shading
tab and as we did before with the layout
and the transform tab the shading tab is
another creative playground for you to
start on top you will see eight buttons
here these buttons stand for the eight
shaders that actually are available with
each text + tool the first one is the
default shader which by default is
enabled if you switch that off you won't
see any text at all just as a very quick
example if you go to the second shader
that one defaults to a red outline the
third one defaults to a black drop
shadow but we're gonna dive into that
one later on let's go back to shader one
the next slider is the opacity so in
each of these shaders you can define how
OPEC in terms of the Alpha Channel your
actual text is you can also set the
priority in terms of back and front so
if you have multiple shaders multiple
texts lay it on top of each other
you can define for every one of those
what their priority is in terms of
rendering also you can define the mode
in which those layers are mixed together
then we have the appearance buttons here
somebody fault it's a filled text you
can also switch that to outline or to a
filled backdrop or an outline backdrop
for your individual characters in
outline mode you also have a thickness
slider which defines the thickness of
the outline I will dive a bit deeper
into the outline setting when we come to
the second shader tab the next option
covers the type of fill said right now
we have a solid fill but we can also use
a gradient or any image on the flow so
for example if we add a fast noise tool
here
go to color and do something like maybe
this
we can use that as an image to map our
text let's stick with the solid then of
course you can set the color like for
example give this a grayish look or
maybe make it some sort of yellowish
here
the next option are the softness and
glow sliders so again on each of your
shadings you can apply individual
softness for x and y and of course all
these sliders can be animated also if
you apply it softness you have the
option to add glow to that and then you
have an individual transform for each of
the shaders so you can define your
offset Z you can define your pivot point
for each of the shaders pivot Z you can
define the angle x y and z and that's
all in addition to what we talked about
in the layout and transform tab so
shading gives you another option to
modify the appearance of your characters
again you've got share why sheer X
controls and individual X&Y size
controls let's switch over to another
shading and activate shading number two
which as I said before defaults to a red
outline let's see what we can do with
this so for example if we switch this to
gradient you will see that out of a
sudden I get something like a metallic
highlight here let's adjust the
thickness a little bit and go into our
mapping angle animating the mapping
angle would give you something like a
traveling highlight around your edges
and also you can define how your ads
should look
so for example it defaults to rounded
but I normally go for sharp because
sharp actually mimics the appearance of
the original font rounded or bevel is
another option let's play around with
the shading gradient for a second so to
make this even more metallic looking we
could define a much sharper transition
here and let's say this shouldn't be
black but something like the subtle gray
here and he made this and there you go
you can also influence the mapping size
the mapping aspect and the mapping level
the mapping level defaults to character
but this can also be set to full image
so the gradient we define is applied to
the full extent of the image or you can
set it to text so the gradient is
applied to the extent of the text line
means it is applied to individual lines
so if we add more text here another line
like so you see the mapping is applied
to each line individually word means it
is applied individually to each word
best can be seen if we again move our
mapping angle here and character means
it's applied to each individual
character so again many ways to spice up
your emotion graphics here let's add
some rotation here in the layout tab go
back to our shading and make it a big
thicker here well now you see this
doesn't look really right because I've
got perspective on my text but no real
perspective on the thickness of the
outline you can switch to adapt
thickness to perspective and then you
see that you've got smaller outlines on
the back and bigger outlines on the
front which of course updates when you
change your layout rotation again you
can't apply individual softness to your
second shading now so let's say this
should like fade out a bit in Y and just
a little bit in X and it should have
some glow like so well that's maybe a
bit too much maybe like so and then in
the gradient let's make this more
blueish here like so and of course you
can add a little exportation here to
create something like that and of course
combine all this with what we learned so
far like for example put this on a
circle bring it down a bit rotate the
entire thing like so it really is a
creative playground here in the text
tool we're going to talk about some
other tabs in the next tutorial thanks
for your time and stay tuned