Lightning-fast display has always been one of Xara's strengths, even on machines back in the mid-1990s.
Which gave me an idea, and you can do this type of animation, too, if you own a copy of Camtasia or other screen capture video utility (Open source CamStudio might work for you).
1. Set up your scene in Xara with a background, as I did...some stars.
2. Create a foreground shape and then use the Extrude tool to make it into a 3D shape.
3. Apply a weird Live Effect: I used the Soften>Camera Zoom filter here.
4. Make sure your video capture program doesn't record the cursor, start recording, and then rotate and move your Extrude shape around.
Dumb, but entertaining if you watch it less than twice.
My Best,
Gary
31 May 2013, 03:51 PM
pauland
Re: Dumb animation trick
That made me smile Gary - but that would provoke disapproving stares in an open-plan office!
Beware the music!
31 May 2013, 04:06 PM
Gare
Re: Dumb animation trick
People in open-plan offices disapprove of Mozart!?
;)
I'll mark this "NSFW": No Sonatas For Work".
-g
31 May 2013, 04:07 PM
pauland
Re: Dumb animation trick
LOL - In an open-plan office, music sonata allowed. (say it in your head in a cheesy Italian accent).
31 May 2013, 04:23 PM
Gare
Re: Dumb animation trick
...and Laughing out Loud is also permitted?
Often wondered about that, and whether people do it as often as they write it.
WOL (wondering out loud),
-g
31 May 2013, 05:17 PM
pauland
Re: Dumb animation trick
No LOL forbidden in an open-plan office. I'm at home, though!
31 May 2013, 06:39 PM
wizard509
Re: Dumb animation trick
I hear twinkle, twinkle, little star. Did Mozart! write that?. Clever idea Gare.