Apple Shake 4 Tutorials - Manual (Page 226)

226 Chapter 8 Working With Macros
The following images demonstrate the creation of a macro. The first image shows four
connected nodes—the Text node and the three nodes that combine to create a blur
effect. Following a long, arduous process, the second image shows the completed
macro attached to an icon (RotateBlur icon) in the Filter Tool tab. The third image shows
the completed macro, the RotateBlur node, applied in the tree—it looks like any other
node. The last image demonstrates that only the angle and the blur parameters from
the original nodes are exposed in the Parameters tab of the new node.
Creating a Handmade Macro
The first step in a macro is to build the desired effect—for the purposes of this
example, a “RotateBlur” node—using normal nodes.
To build the node tree:
1 Create an Image–Text node.
2 Attach a Transform–Rotate node.
3 Attach a Filter–Blur node.