do text behaviours always scale from baseline?

[Kyle Jenkins]

I am using motion 4, but am kind of a Newb at it… I don’t really know anything about parameter linking…

Care to walk me through the steps?

[Lu Nelson]

I don’t have it in front of me, and it would take a while to explain;

but you should look for a tutorial on parameter linking in Motion, and see if you can track back to what we said earlier in the thread. The idea would be to get the offset value to change itself automatically based on the type size, so it’s always appearing to scale from the middle. In the Link Parameter behaviour you have the option to multiply the the parameter you are linking to by some number, and this is where you’ll have to experiment with some decimal number that will be the correct offset factor. Like I said it will be different for each font cause they have different actual character heights relative to their type point size.

Lu Nelson
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