Authored Effects

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Effects other than Place and Basic Effects are referred to as Authored Effects. These Effects are stored on your hard disk as a ".sfx" file.

SWiSH comes with over 330 pre-defined Authored Effects. As these Effects are stored on disk in your Effect Library, you can tailor existing Effects to your needs or create your own new Effects by altering the settings of existing Effects and then saving the ".sfx" file under a new name. Effects Authoring provides you with the ability to present the user with a subset of parameters that are available for alteration.

See Creating Effects and Effects Authoring for more information on creating custom and Authored Effects.

The Authored Effects provided are divided into the following categories:

·	Appear into position: these Effects animate your text or Objects to bring them into the current position

·	Disappear from position: these Effects animate your text or Objects away from where they are currently placed. They will have disappeared by the end of the Effect

·	Loop continuously: these Effects animate your text or Objects in a repeating pattern. You can loop the Frames containing these Effects or string multiples of them together to make a longer animation

·	One off: these Effects animate your text or Objects, but don't have any particular start or end point

·	Return to start: these are similar to the Loop continuously Effects, but will always start and finish with the current placement.