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Give the Letters a Surface

Water droplets, glitter, iridescence, stained glass. Choosing a built-in material turns a flat fill into a surface, and the color or gradient underneath carries straight through.

• Thirteen materials
• Up to five controls each
• Builds on the fill color

How to UseSettings Reference

How to Use

1. Set Page to Global Settings.
2. Open the Texture group under Color Settings.
3. Choose a material in Texture.
4. Shape the surface with P1-P5, whose names follow the material you chose. P5 shows only for the materials that use it.
5. Adjust the color with Texture Color.

How the Materials Differ

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Water Droplet

Material	Character
Water Droplet	The letters swell as though full of water, with highlights across the surface - a droplet running down a window, or wet jelly
Air Cushion	A film sealed at its edges and inflated inside, like bubble packaging
Glitter	Fine metal flakes packed densely, with those facing the light catching it. They appear over the stroke too
Iridescent	Rainbow colors from thin-film interference - the look of a soap bubble or a beetle's shell. Raising Film Variation makes the film uneven, so the colors flow like an oil slick
Faceted	The letter cut from flat faces that lean in from its outline, like a letter carved in stone. The faces meet along straight ridges and split crisply into light and shade
Stained Glass	The fill split into pieces of colored glass, outlined with lead came
Metallic	Brushed metal with fine hairline scores. The fill color is the metal's own color: ochre reads as gold, light gray as silver, red-brown as copper. Hairline Angle turns the scores
Metallic 2	Chrome plating that reflects a sky and a horizon, shining with a crisp switch from light to dark, with Exposure controlling the brightness itself
Stripe	Parallel stripes in a color you choose, laid over the fill. Count, width, angle and strength are adjustable
Colored Pencil	A solid fill with thin white scratches scattered at random, and the edges facing the light left bare, like pencil on white paper. The fill color is the pencil and Texture Color is the paper
Halftone	A grid of round dots in a color you choose, laid over the fill. Raising Fade shrinks the dots along a direction you set with Fade Angle (0 thickens them downwards)
Halftone Diamond	The same halftone with diamond-shaped dots, drawn with the area of a round dot so switching between the two does not change how dark it looks
Prism Foil	The fill replaced by silver prism foil: rays of light and rainbow fan out from the centre of each square tile, like a holographic sticker. Moving Light Angle shifts which tiles and rays catch the light

Control Mapping

The five controls (P1-P5) are generic slots shared by every material, renamed to suit the one you choose (P5 is shown only for the materials that use it).

Texture	P1	P2	P3	P4	P5
Water Droplet	Thickness	Roundness	Gloss	Light Angle	-
Air Cushion	Inflation	Seal Width	Wrinkles	Light Angle	-
Glitter	Flake Size	Highlight Ratio	Flake Amount	Light Angle	-
Iridescent	Film Thickness	Hue Range	Strength	Light Angle	Film Variation
Faceted	Facets	Bevel Depth	Polish	Light Angle	-
Stained Glass	Piece Size	Lead Width	Hue Range	Glow	-
Metallic	Polish	Relief	Reflection Contrast	Light Angle	Hairline Angle
Metallic 2	Polish	Relief	Exposure	Light Angle	-
Stripe	Stripe Density	Stripe Width	Strength	Stripe Angle	-
Colored Pencil	Scratch Density	Scratch Length	Light Amount	Stroke Angle	Light Angle
Halftone	Dot Density	Dot Size	Fade	Grid Angle	Fade Angle
Halftone Diamond	Dot Density	Dot Size	Fade	Grid Angle	Fade Angle
Prism Foil	Tile Size	Hue Range	Strength	Light Angle	Grid Angle

The angles (0-360) are Light Angle, Stripe Angle, Grid Angle, Fade Angle and Stroke Angle; every other control runs 0-1. Stained Glass puts Glow in that same fourth slot, and it is not an angle: 0.5 is plain glass, raising it makes the panes emit, and lowering it makes them go dark.

Building on the Fill Color

A material does not replace the fill; it is layered on top of it (Prism Foil is the exception; see below). Font Color, the gradient, and individual character colors all stay visible underneath, so your choice of color carries straight through to the result.

How the color is decided differs by material, though. Stained Glass takes the hue of what is underneath as the starting point for each piece of glass, so the fill color sets the palette of the result. Glitter, by contrast, takes its metal color from Texture Color rather than from the fill.

Stripe, Halftone and Halftone Diamond draw their stripes and dots in Texture Color. Colored Pencil is the other way round: the fill color underneath is the pencil, and Texture Color is the color of the white scratches left unpainted (the paper).

Prism Foil replaces the fill with the foil, so the color underneath only shows through when Strength is lowered. Texture Color sets the color of the foil: the default white is silver, and a yellowish color makes gold foil.

TIP

Combined with a gradient, Stained Glass changes the color of its pieces across the text - an effect that is hard to build from a single fill color.

Recipes

Glitter in gold

1. Set Texture to Glitter.
2. Set Texture Color to gold; this is the base color of the metal flakes.
3. Set the flake density with Flake Amount (P3).
4. Raise Highlight Ratio (P2) to light up more of the flakes.
5. Keyframe Light Angle (P4) and the lit flakes change over, so the sparkle moves.

From single-color glass to many

1. Set Texture to Stained Glass.
2. Hue Range (P3) at 0 keeps every piece on the fill's own hue.
3. Keyframe Hue Range from 0 to 1 and the colors spread out over time.

Driving It from a Script

ctx.global.texture sets the global material and its controls, and setting use = true on ctx.chars[i].texture or ctx.parts[i].texture gives a single character or part a material of its own (per-character and per-part material overrides are available from Lua scripts). See Animating with Lua Scripts for more.

When the Result Is Not What You Expected

• No material appears at all - Check whether Transparent Fill is on. It removes the fill itself, and the material layered over it goes with it (only characters and parts using an individual color keep theirs).
• Texture Color changes nothing - You are probably on Iridescent, which ignores it: its colors come from the thin film itself.
• Colored Pencil shows no scratches - Check that Scratch Density (P1) is not 0; at 0 no white scratches appear. The bare edges facing the light are set by Light Amount (P3), so 0 removes those too.
• Prism Foil hides the fill color - The foil replaces the fill. Lower Strength (P3) to let the color underneath show through.
• MT Sim looks different from the plugin - Textures in the MT Sim preview (VSCode extension) are a simplified hint. For Colored Pencil it leaves out the bare edges facing the light. For Prism Foil it paints the rays of each tile as a few wedges, so their edges look angular. Iridescent's Film Variation is not shown. The choice of material and the effect of each control can be checked there, but confirm the final appearance in the plugin itself.