Text and clock

Words, or the time and date.

Kind: Layer · Words
Script name: text
Cost to draw: Light

Text

Setting	Kind	Starts at	Range and notes
Text`text`	words	{time}	{time} {date} {day} {hour} {minute} {second} {year} fill themselves in, and each of the scene's sensors by the name it's shared as, such as {pulse}
Before a reading`waiting`	words	none	Shown instead of the words while a sensor they name has no reading yet. Empty: a dash in its place
Decimals`decimals`	whole number	0	0 to 3How many a sensor's reading is shown with
Font`font`	font	Outfit	–
Size`size`	number	12%	1% to 40%Share of the screen's height
Weight`weight`	choice	Light	Light, Regular, Bold
Italic`italic`	on or off	off	–
Letter spacing`spacing`	number	0em	-0.1 to 0.5em
Colour`colour`	colour	`#f4f6f8`	–
Glow`glow`	number	35%	0% to 100%
Glow colour`glowColour`	colour	`#7ce695`	–
Line up`align`	choice	Centre	Left, Centre, Right

From a script

Every setting above can be changed by the scene's logic, by its key. Say the layer is called Text and clock:

scene.set("Text and clock", "size", 0.4);scene.animate("Text and clock", "opacity", 0.5, 2);

import { scene } from "motion";scene.set("Text and clock", "size", 0.4);scene.animate("Text and clock", "opacity", 0.5, 2);

Used in

The example scenes with a Text and clock layer in them. Each picture is the whole scene, not the layer alone: open one to see what the layer does in it.

What every layer has

Besides its own settings, every layer has its opacity, blend, placement, quick effects and an effects stack. They're listed once, on the layers page.