- [Instructor] I've dropped some objects on my page,
laid them out,
configured them,
and even grouped some objects together.
You'll be seeing this airport site plan
more in the next section,
but for now we're not concerned with how this functions,
just how it looks.
In the introduction,
I mentioned we have tools
to transform objects in the toolbar
when we drop them on the page,
but let's look a bit deeper in the object tree for more.
If I right click on an object in the tree
and hover over New,
there are several sub-objects I can create
based on this one.
We'll discuss some of these in later videos,
but for now let's focus on Rotate,
Scale,
SkewX,
SkewY,
and Translate,
as these are the graphical transformations on our object.
I'll add a Rotate to my title text.
As you can see,
this adds a new object in the tree attached to my text.
The rotate has the properties Angle and Center.
Angle is measured in degrees counter-clockwise.
(keyboard clicking)
Center is the center of rotation
measured as the percentage of the x and y sizes.
The default,
0.5,
puts the center at 50% of the x-axis
and 50% of the y-axis,
right in the middle of the object.
If I change this to 0,
0.5,
the rotation is around the midpoint of the left edge.
(mouse clicking)
Scaling works much the same way,
with ScaleX and ScaleY
measured as percentages of the original size.
(keyboard and mouse clicking)
A positive skew on the x-axis
drags the top-left corner further left
and the bottom-right corner further right
measured in degrees.
Positive SkewY drags the top-left corner up
and the bottom-left down.
Of course, the center point of these transformations
can also be adjusted.
Finally,
Translate simply moves the object around the screen.
(keyboard clicking)
One last point to make here
is that all these modifications
are standard object properties,
meaning they can be bound, animated, or scripted
as we'll see in the upcoming videos.
With that, let's try binding some values
and testing them in the Preview mode.
Until then, thank you.