Render Time

Category: Generative

Render Time is one of the generative layer templates that create a small texture that tells various times in seconds.

Blend mode: determines the blend mode that's going to be used when rendering the texture onto a mapping. The options are the familiar ones such as Normal (alpha), Screen, Multiply etc.
Opacity: determines the opacity with which texture when rendered onto the mapping.
Mapping: determines the mapping through which the texture is going to be rendered onto the object. Options are directly onto one of the viewport objects, such as the a video screen, on one of the canvases for further splitting or on one of the throwers for 3D dependent mapping of the content.
Clip mode: determines how the content is rendered onto the mapping. Options are:
- Pixel perfect: renders the texture as it is without and stretching, scaling or cropping
- Crop: fills the mapping in its entirety. If aspect ratios are different, the texture is going to get cropped
- Stretch: fills the entire mapping but if the aspect ratios of the texture and the mapping are different, there will be stretching
- Fit: scales the texture proportionally so that it fits the mapping. If aspect ratios are different, there will be empty areas in the mapping.
Angle: rotates the texture by the specified angle in degrees.
Anchor at center: if unchecked the texture is going to be rotated around the top left corner, if checked, it's going to be rotated around the center.
X: moves the texture by X pixels horizontally
Y: moves the texture by Y pixels vertically

Time: with this variable you select which time you want to render. Options are:
- From beginning of timeline
- From the end of timeline
- From beginning of layer
- From the end of layer
Timeline: here you select which timeline you want to render the time of. This variable is ignored if you selected one of the layer options above.
Layer: here you select which layer you want to render the time of. This variable is ignored if you selected one of the timeline options above.
Seconds: the time value. This variable is set by the layer itself.
Text before: write the text you want to pre-append.
Text after: write the text you want to write after the time value.
Font color: the color of the text
Background color: the color of the background
Font size: the size of the font. This determines the height of the texture.
Auto rename: select if you want the layer's name to display the state of the variables.