Text on a circular path becomes jumbled
Hi Everyone!
Well, I’m stuck and I’m not even sure I’m doing this the right way, anyways. I’m hoping you all will be able to give me some guidance. I’ve searched around for the answer – but I’m either not wording the question right or there’s nothing out there. I don’t know. (Fyi if needed: running Motion 15.9 and Sequoia 15.2 on a Mac Studio)
First, this is just an experiment to see if I can make this work. So far, I’m not. I want the words "made in USA" to follow along the inside of the gear as it turns – sort of like it is engraved on the gear.
As you can see by my layers panel, I have the text set on a path using a circle the same size as the gear and I’ve used the geometry setting for the path shape. It works pretty much how I want it too...it goes around the circle following the gear, but the word gets kinda wonky around the bottom area. But I think that can be fixed with some keyframing. (obviously this still needs work to make it look like some kind of engraving...any suggestions on that are welcome too!) :)
The real problem is in the letters of the word itself. They get jumbled as they go around as you can see by my screenshots. It starts out perfect – goes wonky – then goes back to perfect again. Do I need to somehow keyframe this as well, or is there a setting/behavior I am missing somewhere? Thank you!
