Transition template: <transitions>

XML location & structure

<cu3er>
  <settings>
      <transitions />
  </settings>
</cu3er>

Overview

3D Transitions represent the core feature of the CU3ER. They are powerful, visually appealing yet very easy to set up. You can define your transition template and then override it with custom settings for each transition, if needed – by doing it this way you don’t have to define each property over and over again, the CU3ER allows you to alter all you want once including the other attributes automatically.

”Transition template” configures common slide transition properties for each slide transition.

Let’s take a quick look at what are available attributes for this image:

Available attributes:

• num - number of slices each transition consists of
• slicing - direction of cube slicing - horizontal or vertical
• direction - transition direction / cubes rotation direction -left, right, up, down
• shader - transition shading type - none, flat, phong
• light_position - if “shader” is set other than 'none', use this attribute to define x, y & z light position for shading
• cube_color - during transition, some other cube faces (beside your slide faces) will most likely become visible for a short period of time and you can define their color here
• z_multiplier - z offset enables jo-jo effect of the cubes on z axis during transition
• duration - time for each sliced cube transition
• delay – time each sliced cube will wait before starting transition. Please, notice that 'delay' is a cumulative value, which means it’s increasing gradually as all preceding delays are added to the delay of the cube already displayed.

As you can see, this node is the very essence of the CU3ER. By combining the attribute values, almost an endless number of possibilities for creating a unique cubed transition can be reached. Please, pay close attention to this node and make sure to understand each of these attributes well – it’s all you need to become CU3ER ninja!

Example:

<!-- Altering only 3 attributes - rest of the will have default values!-->
<transitions
    num="3" 
    slicing="vertical" 
    direction="down"
/>

XML Reference

Attribute	Default Value	Type	description
num	1	number	number of slices each transition consists of
slicing	horizontal	string	direction of cube slicing - horizontal or vertical
direction	left	string	transition direction / cubes rotation direction -left, right, up, down
duration	0.5	number	time (needed) for each sliced cube transition (in seconds)
delay	0.1	number	time each cube will wait before starting transition (in seconds)
shader	none	string	transition shading type - none, flat, phong
light_position	0, 0, -100	numbers	use this attribute to define x, y & z light position for shading (works only if shader is not set to "none")
cube_color	0x333333	hex number	cube faces color
z_multiplier	2	number	bezierTrough effect over "z" axis during transition