Effects

Contents List

• Use Effects
  
• Effect Types 
  

Use Effects 

One or more effectsEffects describe the appearance of a RenderNode in a 2D scene. DifferentThe effectnumber typesof caneffects be added to a RenderNode so that they resemble an "effect chain". To allow optimized implementations for different GPUs the effect chain canmay differ on each platform.

Use AllCombined Effects

To enable all the availableThe effects insteadprovided ofin onlySceneComposer are combined effects. in the Toolbox of a 2D scene, a command line argument for starting SceneComposer is available:

Take care to drop the effects in the correct order:

Please refer to section Effect Types for information about Types of Effects.

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Effect Types 

Three kinds of basic effectsThey can be dragged from the toolbox and and dropped onto a RenderNode.

Background information

Combined effects are a combination of two or three basic effect types that are combined to an effect chain:chain.

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this effect chain  Brush Effect

• Brush Effect: Acts as the input effect, meaningeffect; it defines the source data for the node.

node Always has to be the first effect in the chain. E.(e.g. SolidColorBrush, BitmapBrush, TextBrushBitmapBrush)

  In-place EffectEffect:

This effect is optional for the chain. Multiple different in-place effects can be concatenated.concatenated E.(e.g. ConstantAlphaEffect, MaskEffect, HslCorrectionEffect (color correction effect)   Blend Effect

Always has to be the last effect in the chain.MaskEffect) E.Blend Effect: e.g. AlphaBlendEffect

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On several platforms some of these effect combinations can be processed in one single pass by the GPU. Therefore two or even more effects can be put into a so called "Combined Effect".

This icon indicates that theconfigured effect chain is complete and consists of the following 

Please refer to section Use Effects for details on how to use Effects.

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Combined Effects

Examples of combined effects available in the Toolbox panel are:

Bitmap Effects:

Solid Color Brush Effects:

Text Brush Effects:

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Multi Line Text Input

Sometimes it could be necessary to introduce a long text - structured in multiple, successive, lines - into a text field. For such reasons SceneComposer provides the possibility to introduce many lines in any text field available in Properties panel. Do this by using the Ctrl + Enter combo at the end of every line. On this way another piece of text will be introduced on the next line.

If it is be necessary to keep the same "multi lined" text but to re-order it as a single - linear - piece of text later on, the Multi-Line property should be used to achieve this effect. The multiline laying out property allows you to force multiline text to be laid out within a single line, ignoring new line markers.

To access the Multi-Line property within the Text Layout category, you will first need to enable the Enable Text Layout option.

This property is accessible for any text effect.

For usability reasons, SceneComposer only provides combined effects in the Toolbox by default.

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Use Combined Effects

Following node types are already preconfigured with a specific combined effect:

For a user-defined node, use the following 2D node type:

Select the node in the left side of the Scene Tree panel to display the linked effect in the right side. Then, select the effect in the right side, so that the effects properties are displayed in the properties panel.

Edit the properties specific forto the effect type in the Properties panel.

Please refer to section Use Effects for details.

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