Font and Effects

• Font: Lists all available fonts created from the same base font. To use another font, select it from the list. To use a totally different font in the scene, drag the new font from the Asset View panel onto the Font Areas of the text.
  To locate the font in Asset view, click on the button.

• Bold: Toggles bold effect.

• Italic: Toggles italic effect.

• Underline: Toggles underline effect. Additional options can be found in the following section.

• Subscript: Toggles subscript effect.

• Superscript: Toggles superscript effect.

Spacing

• Kerning: Set custom kerning between the characters at the current cursor position.

• Word Spacing: Changes the size of the spaces between the words in the text.

• Leading: Modifies the distance between the text lines.

• Tracking: Changes the tracking between all characters by the same amount. Clicking the Fixed button changes the text from true type to one where each character uses the same space.

Underline Options

• Include Space: Sets whether to underline the whitespace characters.

• Position: Sets the underline offset.

• Width: Sets the thickness of the underline.

Coloring Options

• Colored: Activates the selected color for the text as a solid color, overriding the color of any material on the text container in the scene tree.

• Lighted: Applies the selected color to the text, adjusted for the scene lighting. Transforming the object creates the visual impression of changes to the color. When inactive, the selected color is applied to the text as a solid color.

Rendering Options

• Type: Sets the rendering method for the text.

  • Geometry: Renders geometry type fonts as polygons.

  • Texture: Renders the font as texture instead of polygons. This can, to some degree, create a poorer look, but it reduces the number of polygons in the Scene. The texture resources get an increased demand, so to render a font as texture is a trade-off between polygon and texture performance. For half height mode rendering, texture fonts are normally the better choice. When selected, the anisotropic value is set to 4X by default.

  • Path: Renders the font as vector graphics.

    Note: To use the Path type, the machine must be equipped with NVIDIA GPU and have a driver version 275.33 or higher installed.

• Razor: Renders the font as texture using graphics shader. This method of rendering produce higher quality of anti-aliasing. To use the Razor type, the font must have been imported with Viz Artist version 3.11.0 or higher.

  Note: A Razor type text may produce distorted result when rendering glyphs with high-complexity. Artifacts may appear when two glyphs overlap each other. Lighting is currently not support when using this type.

  Note: Some effects, like Extrusion, are not supported by Texture, Path, and Razor rendering.

• Quality: Sets the quality of the font to either Normal or High. The quality of a texture font can be changed in the Fontstyle Editor. This option only applicable if the font type is set to Geometry.

• Detail: Sets the level of detail, or tessellation of the font, to either automatic level or one out of six fixed settings. The fonts are rendered as polygons, so by switching to wireframe mode, the difference becomes obvious as the detail level changes. One is the highest level of detail, six is the lowest. If setting a fixed level of detail, the automatic level is overwritten and rendered with the same level of detail independent of the font size. This option is only applicable if the font type is set to Geometry.

• Sharpen: Makes it possible to sharpen the font. This option is only available if font type is set to Texture.

• Anisotropic: Improves the texture sampling for anisotropic (in this case non-square) pixel filter areas in mipmapping mode, for example a rotated text texture. Choose either to use the standard mipmap level selection, or select the anisotropic filter rate from a number of available settings. Higher values give better image quality at the expense of some performance. The default value for anisotropic filtering is 4X. This option is only available if font type is set to Texture.

Alignment

• Horizontal: Sets the text alignment or justification in horizontal axis.

  • Left, Right or Center.

  • Justify to fill the text box (must be enabled).

  • Scaled to fill the text box (must be enabled).

  • Justify to Character.

• Justification Char: Sets character to use for Justify to Character option.

  Note: Justify to Character is not supported in the Viz Engine Render Pipeline.

• Vertical: Sets the text alignment in vertical axis.

  • Top: Align text to the top of the container position.

  • First line: Align the first baseline of the text to the container position.

  • Middle: Align text to the middle of the container position.

  • Center: Align text to the bottom of the container position.

Text Box

• Active: Wraps the text within a specified area of the text box when enabled. The text box is shown as an orange outline in the Scene Editor when the text editor is active (if Bounding Box is enabled in the Scene Editor).

• Word: Each line of text contains whole words.

• Any: Each line of text contains all possible letters. Words are split at the Text Box right border.

• Scaling: Sets the scale the size of the Text Box as scale of the text is changed when enabled.

• Width: Sets the width of the Text Box.

• Height: Sets the height of the Text Box.

Clock Format Examples

• Depend: Selects the type of clock to use.

  • Normal: Shows the normal main clock view.

  • Count: Creates a counter, which counts a defined time lap in relation to one of the running clocks. For example, if a clock is running, another Container with the same clock can be created. The state of the second clock should be set to Count, and a time range defined. When clicking the Start button under the Count section, the count clock starts counting for the defined time. It is related to the main clock, so if stopping the main clock, the count clock also stops. A typical use for this function is for counting penalty times in sport graphics. In a sport game running on efficient time, a penalty count down should stop when the main game time stops.

  • Offset: Displays an input box where an offset value in seconds can be entered. For example, if the value is set to 20, the clock starts running after 20 seconds.

  • Sys. Time: Sets the clock to the system time.

  • Local Time: Sets the clock to the local time. This is useful if running on a system which automatically adjusts to daylight savings time.

• Remember time properties: Saves the state of the clock (time, limit and direction) in the scenedata.

Each kind of clock comes with different additional options.

• Generator: (Normal/Offset) Sets the ID of the clock. Up to ten different clock IDs (0-9) can be used in a Scene. Clocks with the same ID are linked together, which means they are synchronized and all start when one clock is started. This can be used to show different time zones, for example

• Time: (Normal/Offset) Defines the start time in seconds. For example, if the clock should start to count at two minutes, set Time to 120.

• Limit: (Normal/Offset) Defines the count limit in seconds. For example, if the clock should stop counting after two minutes, set Limit to 120.

  Note: If counting down to 0, Limit must be set to 0 seconds, or the clock continues to count below 0. If counting upwards starting at 0, make sure that Limit is not 0, as the clock does not count at all.

• Sync: (Count)

  • None: Does not synchronize the count clock to the main clock when enabled. It is almost impossible to start the count clock exactly at a whole second, so the count clock most likely runs unevenly compared to the main clock. In many cases, this does not create the desired output, but may be useful if an offset output is desired.

  • Sec: Synchronizes the count clock with the main clock.

  • Loop: Loops the count clock within the defined count range.

• Min and Max: (Count) Sets the count clock minimum and maximum parameters.

• Direction: (Normal/Count/Offset) Specifies if the clock should count up or count down.

• Up and Down:(Normal/Count/Offset) Specifies if the clock should count upwards or perform a countdown.

• Start, Stop and Continue: (Normal/Count/Offset) Makes the clock start, stop and continue counting.

• Init: (Count) Resets the clock’s counter.