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Rennie Full Member Offline I Love MindFusion! Posts: 108 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Joined: Jul 17^th, 2012	Shadow or halo effect wanted for single composite node Jan 20^th, 2013 at 5:47pm	Print Post
	I've tried various things but I can't get the shadow effect to work at all. I've even tried downloading the Telephony sample from this thread http://mindfusion.eu/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1342176733, but it must be for a previous version, as I'm getting 15 compiler errors. Anyway, that is apparently for ShapeNodes, and what I need is for CompositeNode. What I'd actually like is more of a halo effect, with a colored shadow all around the node, like with the Aero effect. But again, I need it to be for one node only, and it's a composite node. Hope you have a suggestion, thanks.


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Shadow or halo effect wanted for single composite node Reply #1 - Jan 21^st, 2013 at 7:08am	Print Post
	We have implemented support for effects in composite nodes just recently, it will be available in an official release in a couple of weeks: http://mindfusion.eu/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1352371257/3#3


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Rennie Full Member Offline I Love MindFusion! Posts: 108 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Joined: Jul 17^th, 2012	Re: Shadow or halo effect wanted for single composite node Reply #2 - Jan 21^st, 2013 at 8:29am	Print Post
	OK, sounds good, thanks.


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Rennie Full Member Offline I Love MindFusion! Posts: 108 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Joined: Jul 17^th, 2012	Re: Shadow or halo effect wanted for single composite node Reply #3 - Jan 29^th, 2013 at 11:50pm	Print Post
	I've started using the Aero effect to provide a "halo" around my composite node (using 6.0.2 beta) by specifying the shade color as yellow. This is working OK, but I'm wondering if it's possible to make the shading size larger?


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Shadow or halo effect wanted for single composite node Reply #4 - Jan 30^th, 2013 at 7:11am	Print Post
	It's not possible at this time, and the shade drawing is also very expensive in processing time so you'll probably not like the performance with larger shades


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Rennie Full Member Offline I Love MindFusion! Posts: 108 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Joined: Jul 17^th, 2012	Re: Shadow or halo effect wanted for single composite node Reply #5 - Jan 30^th, 2013 at 9:50am	Print Post
	Aw, now I'm feeling disappointed. How about if I promise that I'll only apply it to one node, and not apply any effects at all to the other nodes?


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Rennie Full Member Offline I Love MindFusion! Posts: 108 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Joined: Jul 17^th, 2012	Re: Shadow or halo effect wanted for single composite node Reply #6 - Jan 30^th, 2013 at 10:30am	Print Post
	Maybe I shouldn't be using the Aero effect at all. I just want to mark one node with some kind of yellowish frame around it, to show that it is selected in a special way. Maybe I should have an extra outer shape that is hidden or transparent for all nodes except for the one I want to mark, and use a yellow brush for it for the one node I want to mark. Does that sound like a better way of doing what I want to do?


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Stoyo God Member Offline MindFusion support Posts: 13230 Joined: Jul 20^th, 2005	Re: Shadow or halo effect wanted for single composite node Reply #7 - Jan 30^th, 2013 at 2:21pm	Print Post
	We'll have it in mind for next release A way to draw the frame around the special node is to change its Pen to a thicker one, possibly using the Pen(Brush) constructor with a translucent gradient brush. There are other methods, such as drawing using the GDI+ API from DrawBackground or DrawForeground event handler. I hope that helps, Stoyan


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