– interactive advertising
In order to switch between different effects, you can use the “CH+” and “CH-“
key of the remote control. If you want to switch the EffectProcessor
application into windowed or full screen mode, you can do so by using the key
“R” and “L”.
The EffectClient is a software to generate different kinds of effects for the
poolSystem. You can copy the EffectClient to another computer to generate
the effects there, instead of the xcite-System. This computer should have as a
minimum 512 MB RAM and the faster it is, the faster the EffectClient will save
your work. In order to copy the EffectClient to another computer, you need to
copy the EffectClient.exe file and the folder “templates” – no other installations
are necessary. Simply run the EffectClient.
After starting the EffectClient the window “known hosts” is shown – this serves
is to connect and manage a xcite-System over a network connection and it is
also important for uploading new effects to a system.
On the right side there is a list of available effects. You can easily generate a
new file with effects by selecting “File – New Project” – now, simply drag an
available effect from the list on the right side into your new project file.
Right click on the effect in your project list and select “edit specific options” -
this is where you can edit different attributes of the effect. Only a few rules are
important if you modify effects:
All full screen images (foreground, background, blending, flip) must be 1024 x
768 and either JPG or TGA. The colourset must be RGB-colours. In order to
have transparent overlays for the foreground, you have to use a TGA file,
because only in TGA files there will be an alpha channel with transparency
information.
If you change the animation of the fish, or leaves, you need to have a
sequence of TGA files in a separate folder. This sequence must be named:
anim0001.tga, anim0002.tga etc. You can rename “anim” as you wish, the
numbers before .tga are important. With the “change animation” option in
some of the effect settings you can select the folder in which the animation
sequence canbe found. It will show only one file with “[#50]” inside the name –
which means 50 images are in this sequence. Of course the amount of
images is different from case to case. The .tga files you use for thumb nails or
animated sprites have another restriction:
EFFECT SELECTION
EFFECTCLIENT
