Welcome to Cool Text Generator! It currently only has characters A-Z, but I can add more anytime. What this does is allows you to make pretty cool text, I worked for HOURS on this. When I tell you how to use it, you'll probably understand better >^.^< HOW TO USE: First, enter whatever you want your text to say! (Currently can only do one word at a time (it's mostly designed for thumbnails) and its max character limit is 8*) Then, click anywhere on the screen to place you text! After that, you can keep clicking to re-place it somewhere else, or you can even drag it around! To touch it up, you can play with the sliders on the top! Hover your mouse up there to access them. To the left is the background color settings (solid background only- see to "How I made it" to find out why), and to the right is the text color settings! And, you can press the space key to change the text design! (Only three default options) To add your OWN, click "See inside" and go to the backdrop; you can either import an image by uploading or take one from your backpack! Technically you could also draw one in SVE, but this isn't recommended because you'll lose it when you leave the project. You can backpack it afterwards, of course, but you should add a box bigger than the whole drawing around it and put it in the center- THEN backpack it. This way your drawing will stay centered when you do so! :D (Basically it's because Scratch auto-centers costumes for some reason when they're backpacked, so if your costume is already in the center... Which that's why we put the big box there- all you need to do is remove it when you unbackpack.) Then, to save it, go in fullscreen (for best quality) and either screenshot or, click to add your text and without moving your mouse; right-click and hit "Save image as...". Then upload the costume to where you want to use it. Use the selector tool (in the bitmap editor- don't convert to Vector) to crop it (an easy way is to select just the text and then hit copy, and paste it in the costume you want to). *If you have a word longer than 8 letters, then you can do what I did and write 8 letters of the word, add it to your costume (refer to the above), then type the rest of the word and add that to the end of the other word (to keep correct sizing, don't resize until both parts of the words are in the costume, and then select them both while holding shift, and resize both of them at the same time). ((( Okay, so that looks complex- but it's really not that hard ¸(′ - ‛)¸ ))) And then BOOM! You have cool text! EXTRA: Up arrow to reset settings! If you drag the text around, you'll notice it's almost like it's just erasing parts of a bigger image in the shape of letters and letting you see the backdrop behind it- which it is! I can explain that to you in...
HOW I MADE IT: First, I created a kind of text engine- except for- okay here: - I wrote in the letter "A" - I used shapes to reshape around the A, leaving everything covered BUT the A, so basically making an A stencil - I duplicated the costume and did this for every letter, A to Z - But this was very, very monotonous. So I stopped at Z- (I can add more though if you ask below :)) - Every letter stencil looked like a box with a letter cut out of it (you can see inside and see) - Then I made three other costumes, one to cover the top and bottom of the text, and the other to cover the two sides, therefore hiding the rest of the background when the text was generated - I also made (this is the third costume I mentioned) a HUGE costume, to allow everything to float of screen easily so it wouldn't fetch up and look weird - Then I started the programming; first it would ask you to enter a text, then it would run a script to type out that text; - First, it would go to where the mouse was, then it would go backward a full screen length to hide everything before the word - Then it would type out the word, every time also adding on a box above and below the current letter to hide all that - Then it would repeat the first part again, adding a box at the end of the word to hide everything after it - Then I made it switch to a plain backdrop before the word was created, then when the word was created it would switch to the other backdrops, making it seem like it was being stamped out instead of stenciled! - Then I wanted to make it update the background color automatically, (instead of you having to click again to make it update) so I made it just reset/redraw every time the background color was changed, but when the mouse was clicked, it's position was updated (to do this I removed the go to mouse block and replaced it with a script that would make it go to coordinates set in a position variable. This variable would remain the same until the mouse was clicked, then it would reset to the new mouse location, but it could just redraw itself with the same location when the background color was changed) - I added in scripts to make the setting variables show and hide, and a script to change the background - Then I made the thumbnail - Then I wrote the instructions, ran out of room so continued into the notes and credits ;) - Thennnnnn I wrote these: xD #Text #Generator #TextGenerator #Thumbnails ? CREDITS: - Backgrounds made by me - HUGE costume idea by @griffpatch - Idea: My next project (I made this for it) - Rest: By me If you use my backgrounds ot text generator, please credit. Thanks!
