Carrying on with the control editing theme for the moment, there are two essential ways a control can be customized. Like with ASP.net 2.0, you get an option "Edit Template" for many webcontrols. Likewise, EID gives you that option too. You can either a) edit the template - the actual vectors used to build the control, b) create a copy of the template to edit, or c) create a new template from scratch. With the buttons in FXBesh and FXCresh, I went with C. With the Expander and ProgressBar, I went with B.

Comparing to Flash or 3D Studio MAX on any other animation package out there, there is a big difference in hierarchy:

In Flash its Scene > Timeline > Layers/Objects with keyframes, with SCENE being the root of it all, and _ROOT being the root of the scenes.

In EID/WPF its different - and more dynamic - Scene > Objects. Notice that I did not put Timeline in this hierarchy - well, that's because timelines exist as resources which are attached to events. A timeline has one or more triggers which are attached to one or more objects' events. So you end up reusing a timeline for multiple events. And you can also specify in the trigger whether you want the timeline to start, stop, pause, etc. in a particular event.

And you can "animate" just about anything - ie, properties, values, shapes, etc. So each thing has its own part in the timeline.

Unlike Flash, you don't have to manage groups, layers, etc manually. They come in their own hierarchy.

Here is another app FXDorn - a 3D performance test. There are various triggers bound to different things. The 3D world contains a 3D object with the Play icon as it's shader material. The shader type is emissive therefore uses ADDITIVE blend mode. There are modifications to the default lighting.

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