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Using the plain effector to offset the text

Using the plain effector to offset the text - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite

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Using the plain effector to offset the text

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- [Voiceover] We have our text extruded as a model and broken into individual characters. Now I need to push these characters around to create my animation, and the object that pushes things around in Cinema 4D is known as an effector. The full version of MoGraph that comes with the full version of Cinema 4D has lots of effectors, but even in Cinema 4D Lite, you get a couple good ones. I'll click on MoGraph and choose Effector, Plain. You'll see we also have a Random choice. Plain is kind of misnamed because it's actually very powerful. It's just not tricky like something that randomizes characters. So, with my Fracture Object selected, I'll add MoGraph, Effector, Plain, and you'll see that the text immediately jumped up, indicating it's being pushed around by this plain effector. If your text did not jump up, you might have forgotten to select Fracture when you added the plain effector. That's easy enough to fix. You just select Fracture, go underneath its Effectors tab, and add…

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