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Creating text

Creating text - Alias Tutorial

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Creating text

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- In this video I'm gonna show you how to create text. So text is essentially curve data and it's located under this icon here, or I can right click on the tab and create Text. Let's take a look at the options. We can select a font name. We can select a style. And we can also set the size. So, we're gonna go with the default values. I'm gonna go straight to the top. Let's simply just click and space and type some text in. Now the first thing you'll notice is that when I select anywhere on this text, it's all grouped together. So I want to upgroup that. So let's go up to Edit, Ungroup. Now I can go and select the first word, Autodesk, and I'm going to go and Group it again. You'll notice when I group, it will put the pivot point right at the global 000. Now I'm gonna go and set the pivot at the end of the letter A, and let's move. I'm gonna hold the Alt down and we'll move it to this location. Let me just move the pivot randomly over here like that. I'll show you that when I group…

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