Graphics

Hello,

lets say I have a scene director with some Animation controllers and Push effect transition. I need to change the direction of the push effect based on user input date (published text object with "left", "right", "top" and "bottom").

I tried to change the Direction property with no success...

dim push as xpEffect
Scene.GetEffectByName("Push1", push)
push.Properties.Direction = 0

Should I use xpEffectStack? I also trid this...

dim effects as xpEffectStack
dim push as xpEffect
effects.GetEffectByName("Push1", push)
push.Properties.Direction = 0

Anyone have idea can it be done and how exactly?

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Svetlin Aleksandrov
Motion Graphic Designer
Euronews Bulgaria
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Also can you add event in scene director via script again based on the user input? Lets say create event at # frame with Action jump to frame or play options "stop" I dont know yet what I will use, but in general can you add event by script or other way?
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Svetlin Aleksandrov
Motion Graphic Designer
Euronews Bulgaria
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I would build scene directors with the animations I want and call them by script rather than effects. 

eg

dim sd as xpSceneDirector

 

scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("Change", sd)

 

sd.PlayRange(0, 60)

you can play the other direction like this.

dim sd as xpSceneDirector

 

scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("Change", sd)

 

sd.PlayRange(60, 0)




also support is things like duration so you could simply put

sd.PlayRange(0, sd.duration)

or backwards would be 

sd.PlayRange(sd.duration, 0)


there's loads more you can do but this would be better than addressing effects I think. 

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Simon Redmile
Senior Graphic Programmer & Designer
Ross Video
Bristol United Kingdom
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Hello.
Did you manege to get the effects properties changed by script?

I want to change the Pixelate's effect density.

This is what i have now an d is not working

dim effects as xpEffectStack
dim pix as xpEffect

effects.GetEffectByName("Pixelate1", pix)
pix.Properties.Density= 100

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Juan Pablo Cellanes
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