Templates

Templates can be used to create shortcuts or presets for multiple tags. You define a new tag that gets replaced by some other tags before the text is processed by the animated text element.

Templates can be found in the General section of your Text Animation Settings

The replacement is done in a pre-processing step via string replacement. It's simple but powerful.

Example

Let's start with a template like this:

Property	Value
Tag	angry
Opening Tag	<b><color="red"><shake>
Closing Tag	</shake></color></b>

If you use the tag like this:

Hey, I'm a <angry>very angry</angry> character! I bet you're <wiggle>scared</wiggle>.

The <angry> and </angry> tags will be replaced like this:

Hey, I'm a <b><color="red"><shake>very angry</shake></color></b> character! I bet you're <wiggle>scared</wiggle>.

Very intimidating. Since it's just string replacement, you can add any tags you want. Rich text tags, built-in animation tags, custom animations, etc.

If you want to go crazy, you could even include template tags inside other style tags, but it will only work with some extra care: Each style is only replaced once. They get executed sequentially. That means if your first style contains a tag for your second style, the replaced tags will get replaced too, but it won't work the other way around.