In Nemo3D, the name of the material is, understandably,
Material,
a texture is called
Texture.
Within a Page, it is possible to define several
Actions. No new Object can be created in an Action, but with the Objects already created for the
Page itself, different transformations and animations can be defined for each Action. The simplest
Action is usually made to animate off screen all displayed graphic elements which can be
achieved by animation from the current state (location, size, transparency) into one that can no
longer be seen.
Nemo3D is a template based graphic designer. The designed graphic serves as a model for later
use. A graphic has constant and variable elements. A common lower third graphic designed to
name various guests of a TV show consists of a strap, maybe a logo and the text itself. Only the
text is variable, e.g. the name of a participant of a show to which other information may be added.
In NemoPlay only these variable elements need to be filled in, and the actualized graphic can be
played back immediately. In order for NemoPlay to know which are the variable elements of a
certain Page or Action, these should be tagged in the designing phase. This purpose is served by
Imports
An import designates one of the variable elements of a given graphic. Imports are given individual
numerical IDs so that NemoPlay can identify them.
I. Page Collection, Page
The data of a Page Collection can be processed, one at a time. Consequently, the items of the
File menu well known from all Windows applications (New, Open, Save, Save As) serve to
operate also on Collection files. The name of the active Page Collection also appears on the
Toolbar.
From version 2.6 of Nemo3D there is a new Pages panel where Pages are listed as thumbnail
icons and by their names as well. When you create a new Page, its default thumbnail picture is
the logo of Nemo3D but you can replace it with your own any time by clicking on Save Thumbnail
in the Tools menu. You can create a thumbnail at the moment in the animation you think is the
most representative of that particular template. The thumbnails for Actions are a bit smaller to
indicate their relationship to the Page itself and their border colour is dark blue instead of the
lighter blue of the thumbnail of the Page. If you click on any of the thumbnails its border becomes
bright yellow and the corresponding Page or Action gets selected.
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