CHAPTER 9

Graphic Functions: Opacity and Effects

 

Visual Mode Option

Adjustments

 

 

 

 

 

DMX

Name

Description

Modifier 1

Modifier 2

Value

 

 

 

 

 

Texture

Crossfades between the current image

Selects the

Controls

12

Source Graphic

Mixing

and another graphic object texture.

Crossfade

 

Object Texture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image Scale

Scales and rotates the media file

Scales Image

Sets

13

Rotation

and Rotate

texture applied to a 3-D object

 

 

Angle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14

Film Roll

Scrolls the media file texture

Sets Horizontal

Sets Vertical

horizontally or vertically

Roll Speed

Roll Speed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pixelate

Divides the image into rectangles

Adjusts amount of

Not Used

15

using the center pixel color of each

pixelation

 

 

“box” as it’s color

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16

Faux LED

Divides the image into a grid of circles

Varies grid from

Varies the

to mimic an LED wall

100x100 to 10x10

spacing and B/W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17

Faux Tile

Divides the image into square tiles

Varies grid from

Varies the

100x100 to 10x10

spacing and B/W

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18

Fuzzifier

Creates a multi-image blurring effect

Horizontal

Vertical fuzz

fuzz distance

distance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19

Drop

Creates a scalable drop shadow

Horizontal

Vertical shadow

Shadow

behind the graphic object

shadow size

size

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zooms into a position on the image

Sets horizontal

Sets vertical

20

Zoom Blur

position

with a mult-image blurring effect

position center

 

 

center

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21

Chroma

Shifts the red, blue, and green

Horizontal

Vertical

Shift

component colors

shift

shift

 

 

 

 

 

 

22

ShakeNBake

Introduces a random vibration effect

Horizontal shake

Vertical

shake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

255

Pan

Zooms in and pans across a still image

Horizontal position

Vertical position

and Scan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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AXON specifications

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