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Applying animation effects to selected text
The animation style applies to all characters (see notes below) but you can apply most attributes of the
animation to just a selected character or block of characters. For example, for a Rotate
animation, you could have some characters rotating in a different plane to the others.
Rotate, Swing and Pulsate
animation styles have two versions, 1 animates all characters as a group and 2 animates each character
individually. You can mix versions by selecting part of the text and selecting the other version (1 or 2.)
Fade, Step and Typewriter
animation styles: you cannot apply different settings to a selected area.
Tips for creating animations
Animations can create large file sizes, which are slow to download over the Internet. To keep animations
small we suggest:
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Make the image as small as possible by selecting the Crop option on export.
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Select Front face only for Rotate animations.
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Have no more than about 20 frames per animation. (The fewer the better for keeping the size
down.)
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For multi-page animations avoid having too many pages.
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When exporting try selecting 16 colors (4-bit) with no dithering and optimized palette. When
images are animating, the banding is far less obvious than with a static image.
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When exporting GIFs (animated or static) that have a complex background, try exporting them
as transparent GIFs.
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Rotating the lights changes the file size only slightly.
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For Flash animations, Fade or Step animations create much smaller files than the other animation
styles. For multi-page Pulsate animations, overlapping the pages creates smaller animations.
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Don't get carried away! For example using loads of textures can create very large animation files.
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Turning the shadow off can reduce file size.
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When exporting select to optimize Per frame.
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For tips when saving as a Flash SWF file see Tips for creating Flash files.
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