This applet displays a scrolling text, using colored fonts. There are some effects available, including falling, distortion, zoom rotator and blur effect. Since this applet uses AFT font, only the characters in the font will be displayed. Visit here for more detail about AFT.

[For more technical information about the available parameters, click here.]

Most parameters are self-explanatory and you can always see brief description of each parameter by moving the mouse pointer over the wizard.

Basic Setting

Define the Width and Height of the applet, and select the Resolution value, which works as a zoomign factor. For the best result, use resolution = 1. Select either Background Color or Background Image in the respective fields. Optionally, there's a Blur Effect switch. If you check it, you need to set the Blur Intensity value from [0, 256]. Lower values gives soft and more propagated blurring, higher values gives stronger decadence of color, fading to black sooner. Next, set the Text Horizontal Spacing value, which defines the spacing between letters.

Apart from blur, there are three effects selectable in Effect pull-down menu.

Falling Effect

If you choose falling effcet, first, you need to specify the Space Character which will complete the line of falling letters if your strings are too short. Then, give a value from [1, 256] to Accelaration of the falling movement. At Delay box, you specify the number of frames during which the strings will be displayed after all the letters reached the bottom. The value for Elasticity parameter [0.0, 1.0] controls the way ground reacts when letters falls on. Set this value near 1 for a bouncy ground.

Distortion Effect

There are three Types of distortion paths:

"sin" = 3D sinusoidal scroll,
"spiral" = 3D spiral scroll,
"circle" = 3D circle scroll.

If your choice is spiral or circle, you can use the background image and background color to create an effect of plane with letters around it or similiar. In the background image you have to fill the area you want to be transparent with the color specified in "bgcolor" parameter. If your choice is circle, set Radiux X, Y and Z values. If your choice is spiral, Radius Z value is ignored, whereas with sin option, the Radius Y value is absent. Set the Number of Cycles from [0, 8], however, if your choice is circle, this value has no effect. With Speed parameter, you can set the speed of the scrolling. For left to right, or up to down scrolling set speed > 0. For right to left, or down to up scrolling set speed < 0. To calibrate speed, consider that speed="8" scrolls 1 pixel per frame. Finally, Fade value controls the fading of background letters, and takes a value from [0, 255].

Zoom Rotation Effect

Specify the Rotation Speed and the Number of Rotation. You could set Minimum and Maximum Zoom values. The value for Delay parameter represents the number of frames displayed after the zoom and rotation is performed.

When you click the "Next >" button, you will see the Text entering box, and Anfy Font Property. Enter your choice of text directly, or import the text content from a file. Anfy Font can be obtained from http://www.anfyteam.com/aft/.

Now, proceed to the expert menu.