Apple Motion 2 User Manual

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Chapter 11

Working With Generators

Note: You can also use the standard object scaling methods—the onscreen transform
controls or the Scale parameter in the Properties tab of the Inspector. However, scaling
generators in this manner has a greater impact on your system’s performance.

5

Drag the Contrast slider to adjust the contrast between Color 1 and Color 2.

Although the checkerboard pattern is not changing, adjusting the Contrast parameter
creates the appearance of a different texture.

Animating Generators

Although most generators create static images, you can animate the parameters of a
generator to create a moving texture over time. This section discusses using the
Dashboard to animate the Checkerboard generator from the above example.

Note: You can also animate the parameters of an animated generator.

For information on using Parameter behaviors to animate a generator, see “

Applying

Behaviors to Generators

” on page 811.

To animate the Checkerboard generator parameters:

1

Go to the frame where you want to begin the animation.

2

Enable Record (press A).

Size slider

Contrast slider

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