It is the common situation when you have a replicated object representing a set of objects and you want each object to be depicted on the presentation with an individual shape. In this case, instead of drawing a number of shapes individually one by one, use shape replication.
To animate a replicated object
- Open the diagram of the agent type that embeds your replicated object.
- Draw a shape that will depict an individual instance of your replicated object.
- Go to the Advanced section of the shape’s Properties.
- Define the number of shapes to be created. Suppose your replicated object is named object. In this case you should type object.size() in the Replication edit box.
- You may set specific visual properties for the shapes. Assume, for instance, that the replicated object has a parameter x and you want each shape to have X-coordinate as defined by the parameter of the corresponding object instance. In this case, type object.get(index).x in the X dynamic property field. object here is the name of the replicated object and index is the keyword used to make correspondence between shapes and elements of the replicated object.
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