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jpd005
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December 10, 2019
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Captivate 2019 custom effects

  • December 10, 2019
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Are there any good resource which list all of the tags and attributes and describe what each is used for?  I would like do more custom effects but I’m playing a guessing game as to what all is available and how to use what I find. Anything will help. Online resource, hard copy book…Anything.

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    Correct answer jpd005

    After some more digging I found the following resources.

     

    https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/mx/effects/Effect.html

    https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/geom/Matrix.html

     

    It contains some really useful information about the Motion class (as well as others). The tags/attributes with their values and a description of them. This is the sort of thing I was looking for.

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    jpd005AuthorCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    December 19, 2019

    After some more digging I found the following resources.

     

    https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/mx/effects/Effect.html

    https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/geom/Matrix.html

     

    It contains some really useful information about the Motion class (as well as others). The tags/attributes with their values and a description of them. This is the sort of thing I was looking for.

      RodWard
      Community Expert
      RodWardCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 19, 2019

      That information seems to be more related to ActionScript coding, not HTML5.

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      jpd005Author
      Inspiring
      December 19, 2019

      True.  However the description of the XML tags and attributes do apply. If there is a better resource I'd love to know about it.

      Lilybiri
      Lilybiri
      Legend
      December 10, 2019

      Do not really understand what  you want? You can create a custom effect by editing existing effects, by combining effects in one custom effect etc.. In many cases you will need to create a custom effect if you want to apply it by an advanced or shared action.  What do you need?

      http://blog.lilybiri.com/how-to-use-custom-effect-in-actions

       

      Found this page in the reference pdf:

      https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/using/object-effects.html#xml_elements_for_effects_configuration_parameters

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      jpd005Author
      Inspiring
      December 10, 2019

      I have seen how to use the preset effects to create different effects. But what I am wanting is documentation on the XML file(s) that are used by Captivate to generate the effect. I want to be able to edit the XML directly not rely on the pre-canned stuff. Thank you (BTW) for your quick reply.

      Lilybiri
      Lilybiri
      Legend
      December 10, 2019

      There is no documentation available for the XML files. I seldom use them directly, find it easier to edit the effects and create a custom effect from a sequence of edited effects on the timeline. If you look at that blog and at many other use cases of custom effects on my site, you'll see what is possible. Here is a game based on a timeline effect:

      Game

      For motion effects I always use Guides to position the different points of the motion path:

      http://blog.lilybiri.com/guides-rule

       

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