Effects

Contents

• What are Effects?
• Demo
• Effects & Performance
• Gotchas

What are Effects?

Effects let you add visual flair to actors, without having to add new animations or additional code to the game. All effect-related blocks are located under Actor > Effects.

Demo

The following demo demonstrates all of the available effects in Stencyl.

Effects and Performance

The golden rule is this: don’t continually re-apply effects every frame of the game.

This will drain performance because the backing “bitmap” for the Actor’s animation will continually be re-generated.

Effects in themselves are not performance impacting - it’s the application of effects that takes relatively long.

Gotchas

• Effects persist, even when an Actor’s animation changes.
• Only 1 effect may be applied at a time to a particular actor.
• At this time, effects are a Flash-only feature. In Stencyl 2.5, we’ll support all effects in all games.

Summary

• Use effects to add visual flair, without importing new animations.
• Use effects responsibly to maintain good performance.

BloxmineXL
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