This patch has been split from: D10542
The trouble with the current defaults are ex. that the text size is that small it'll only fit for SD resolution(which is not the current default resolution), it is placed at the very bottom, where no one will need it(not as subtitles nor title), and you'll miss it if you have the preview zoomed just a bit in, there is no text wrapping, who would need adding text outside of the screen as a default? The margin is moving in odd increments, and why should it be in fractions, it's a magic number no matter what. Also the position ranges are currently way too limited(0->1) to do rolling credits, or have large text animated in or out of the screen.
The defaults has been changed along these lines: D7768
Center the text vertically.
Make font larger(default project is not in SD anymore).
Set wrap to 1 - wrapping at screen edge - as default.
Make box transparent(looks better).
Allow shadows on texts when box.
Add decorate to margin. This will fix bad aligning of buttons and expose the fact that this value can be animated.
Change text shadow to lower right direction in alignment with the box shadow.
Make range for font size and position larger, so large sized text can be animated in and out of the preview area. This is useful for ex. rolling credits, or scrolling through frame titles.
A vote on Twitter revealed that those users voting would prefer shadow on text(b) instead of shadow on box(a): https://twitter.com/tintwotin/status/1372608142043930636
So the box shadow has been removed.
If the box color is dark and transparent it works both on dark and light backgrounds and with a white text(also default), so this has been changed to a default setting like this:
And the text shadow has also become slightly transparent, to match the transparency of the box:
Defaults Before:
Defaults After:
Position Range. Title scroll through. Before/After:
Position Range. Rolling Credits. Before/After:
NOTES:
- The text entry box limits strings to something like 256 characters, which is far too little for rolling credits.
- The text in the preview updates with value changes, it would be nice if the same thing would happen when typing in text.
- Shift+Return should add carriage-returns.
- Add-on for converting Text Editor contents to strip(s): https://github.com/tin2tin/text_to_strip