Scroller layer
The 4 scrollers in the above screenshot are rendered with the scroller layer. The template used is from BixPack 1.
What can I do with the scroller layer?
With the scroller layer you can create smooth scrollers.
How do I add a scroller layer?
Choose LAYER > Add layer > Add scroller layer... to add a new scroller layer.
The new scroller layer can be selected from the layers dropdown to make it the active layer.
Examples
The installer comes with shows demonstrating the possibilities of the scroller layer. Choose FILE > Open show... and select a show from the BluffTitler/Media/Shows/Scroller folder.
To quickly switch between your own shows and the ones that came with the installer, click on the Personal and App buttons in the upper right corner of the file dialog.
Scroller layer style 1
3D in background
The scroller is rendered in the background.
3D in 3D space
The scroller is rendered in 3D space. This way it can obscure, rendered behind and intersect other layers.
3D in foreground
The scroller is rendered in the foreground.
2D in foreground
The camera position and rotation is ignored. This is useful when you want to keep a scroller fixed on screen when animating the camera.
Scroller layer style 2
Not filled
The text is not repeated.
Filled
The text is repeated until it fills the rectangle as set with the Width property.
Scroller layer properties
Position
The position of the scroller.
1st slider: horizontal (x) position
2nd slider: vertical (y) position
3rd slider: depth (z) position
Press <F2> to render the coordinate system.
Rotation
The rotation of the scroller.
1st slider: heading
2nd slider: pitch
3rd slider: roll
Press <F2> to render the coordinate system.
Width
The width of the scroller. When editing, the width of the scroller is rendered as a transparent box.
Font size
The font size.
Spacing
The distance between the characters (letterspacing or tracking).
Space width
The width of the space character (wordspacing).
Colour
The diffuse text colour.
1st slider: red
2nd slider: green
3rd slider: blue
When you press <F3> and the mouse is inside the tool window, the standard Windows colour dialog is presented. When the mouse is outside the tool window, the colour of the current mouse position is copied: it's a colour picker!
Transparency
The transparency of the text.
0 means fully opaque
1 means fully transparent (invisible)
Scroll speed
The speed of the scroller. When you are writing in Arabic, Farsi or Hebrew you can use a negative value to make the text scroll to the right.
Emoji
The 1st slider controls the size of the emoji characters. The 2nd slider its vertical position.
Depth bias
This property can be used to solve sorting problems.
Layers have to be sorted according to their distance to the camera. This sometimes goes wrong when using very big, very small or irregular shaped layers. When this happens, use the Depth bias property to fix it.