Fire your messages into the sky and let them fall like fiery shards. Use this messenger to send your message letters like a firework and then watch them explode and forming up your message.

The Background color and Background image

The background color will be used as the background for the effect. If you are using a background image, then this image will override the background color. This background image will be automatically rescaled to fix in the applet area. You can also set the color of the background shape for each letter

Fonts

Here you can here specify the text size (in pixels) and the font. This applet supports FFT files.

Entering messages and URLs

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

Position settings

With the top y setting you can set the top position of the image for the forming effect. The bottom y setting will set the dissolve effect starting position.

Speed values

The Y speed setting will set the speed of the flying letter parts in the first stage of the effect. The Y out speed is the message falling speed setting.

Explosion frames

This setting will set the speed of the overall explosion effect. Values above 20 are recommended for this setting.

Text background shape and size

With the text background you can put a small shape behind each letter, it could be a star, circle, square or nothing. The size of this shape has to be adjusted using the background size (bgr.size), the value should be the double the font size value.

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 Color Buttons
Working with Check Boxes
Compression Ratios for images

Anibal Wainstein