[Hayden Young]

Hi Peter,
thanks for your reply

ok, i’ll try give more detail

say i have 1000 words, and i want them to exist for a certain amount of frames.
during the time they exist they will animate (keyframe animation is sufficient).
at a certain frame the word’s outline will change and then a behavior will activate on that word, and the character will individually vanish in a fancy way

what i want to do with FX plug is read in a text file that contains the words, their life span, and where/when they will animate. This part is easy, it’s just basic Objective C stuff

specific to motion, i want the FX Plug to create a text object for each word that it reads with certain properties.
i want the user to be able to control the colour of the outline of the words. The problem is, is that each word will have a different style attached to them and as far as i can tell, you can select all text objects and mass modify their outline colour (that is, modify all the outline colours at once)
so i want to create the UI (easy) that will mass modify all the text object’s outline colour
I also want to mass apply a behavior that will trigger at the unique frame that the word should “die”

so, in summary
i need the FX plug to:
– read in a text file (easy, i can do that already)
– create a text object that exists for a certain length of time, and animates transformation values
– keyframe the outline (information provided by the text file)
– change the colour of the outline of ALL words at once
– apply a behavior that will trigger at a certain unique frame (specified by the text file for a particular word)

is this possible in motion?