User Guide

As a default, the box shows the objects deﬁned in the current frame. The left pane of the

box displays the applications loaded in memory at the time. You can open the application and

open each frame and see the list of objects of each frame. You can also click on the “Browse”

button to load the object list contained in an application on disc. Once the object is chosen,

double click on it to proceed further.

The frame is now displayed, with a small dialog box and a ﬂashing cross in the middle of

the frame.

• The cross represents the position of creation

of the new object. The X and Y co-ordinates are

displayed in the box. You can move the cross on

the frame with the mouse pointer. This box contains

two modes of functioning: absolute position and

relative position. Absolute position: the object

will be created at the given co-ordinates. Relative

position: the object will be created at a certain

distance from another object.

• To go into relative positioning, simply click on

the object in the frame, or click on “Relative to”

and select the object to use. A relative position is

represented by a link between the cross and the

selected object. Once in relative mode, you have

access to an option screen:

• Originating from. Indicates where the origin point

of the relative object is taken. It can be from the hot-

spot, or from the action point.

• Located at a user deﬁned point means that

the point is calculated by adding the offsets to the

position of the object. Located in direction of

”object” enforces Multimedia Fusion to take the

rotation of the relative object into account and rotate

the coordinate accordingly. Imagine a tank seen

from above, you can turn it in every direction, with

this option the bullets will follow the movement of

the gun.

• Orientation Normal: will use the default orientation

of the created object. In direction of “Object” will

equal the direction of the created object to the direction of the relative object: in our tank

example, the bullet would be created in the direction of the gun.