Effects

Use Effects 

Effects describe the appearance of a RenderNode in a 2D scene. The number of effects may differ on each platform.

Combined Effects

The effects provided in SceneComposer are combined effects. They 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.

The following three basic effect types are used to form this effect chain 

• Brush Effect: Acts as the input effect; it defines the source data for the node (e.g. SolidColorBrush, BitmapBrush)
• In-place Effect: Multiple different in-place effects can be concatenated (e.g. ConstantAlphaEffect, MaskEffect)
• Blend Effect: e.g. AlphaBlendEffect

A correctly configured effect chain consists of the following 

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.

Use Combined Effects

Several node types are already preconfigured with a specific combined effect. E.g the once a BitmapNode is created in the scene graph, it will already be linked to a BitmapBrushBlend 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 to the effect type in the Properties panel.