This 3D text effect will let the letters of each of your messages fall. After the message is formed, then the message fades away and another message begins.

Fonts

Here you can specify the text alignment (left, right or centered text), the text size (in pixels) and the font. We recommend using centered text for this particular messenger. This applet supports FFT files.

Entering messages and URLs

Make sure you have the same number of URLs as you have messages. Enter each message in it's own line. See the section Entering Text Or Files for more information.

Movement settings and Letter delay

The animation speed will increase the speed of each letter's movement. Don't let it be too large, values about 2-4 are good. The letter delay is a setting that should be between 10-30. This is the delay between each falling letter. Adjusting this parameter will give you varied results.

Message pause

This is the pause between each message.

Background image and background color

The background image will be used instead of the background color. Leave this field blank if you want to use the background color setting instead. Use the compression setting to decrease the SWF file size. The background color will affect the shadowing of each letter when they are turned away from you. We recommend setting this color to a color similar to the background image. If you do not have a background image, then the effect will still work fine.

Limitations

Due to a bug in the Flash player, you can only have a maximum line size of 100 characters, that means you can display a text line with 100 letters at the most.

Other settings

There are other settings that are discussed on the following topics from the Advanced Effect Maker documentation:

The Flash Applet Size Parameters
Working With Text Fields
Entering Text Or Files
Working with fonts
Working With File Fields And File Lists
Working With Time Delays and Pauses
Working With Color Buttons
Working with Check Boxes
Compression Ratios for images
Combining Flash applet effects

Version history

1.1 : Added support for the ActionScript LoadMovie() command, which means that the effect can now be inserted into Macromedia Flash FLA projects. You can now load other .swf files or disable the links by entering empty links.

Anibal Wainstein