Elements

Everything you place on a sign is an element. There are three kinds, added from the buttons above the layer list. A sign holds up to 128 of them.

Shared settings

Every element, whatever its type, has these in the Element panel:

Setting	What it does
X / Y	Position in canvas pixels, measured from the top-left of the sign.
Rotation	Turns the element around its own origin.
Opacity	How see-through it is. Defaults to 0.50.
Layer order	Z-index. Higher draws in front.
Color tint	Multiplies the element’s colour. White leaves it untouched.

Note

Positions are always in the sign’s own pixel space, never in screen pixels. Zooming the canvas changes what you see, never the numbers that get saved.

The three types

Text

Draws a line of text.

Setting	Notes
Text content	What it says. Line breaks are kept.
Text type	Normal draws the glyphs alone; Background fills a plate behind them.
Background color	The plate colour, used by Background type.
Font variant	Weight and italics Light through ExtraBold.
Font size, Letter spacing, Line height	Standard type controls.
Alignment	Left, center or right.
Bold, Uppercase	Quick toggles on top of the chosen variant.

Caution

Only Open Sans is available, in the weights listed above. The mod ships that one family, so any other font would fall back to something you did not pick.

Image

Draws a texture a mod icon, an RSS sign texture, or one of your own images.

Setting	Notes
Image width / height	Drawn size in canvas pixels.
Scale X / Scale Y	Negative values mirror the image on that axis.
Slice X / Slice Y	9-slice mode, for textures meant to stretch without distorting their borders.

Use Icon & image browser in the inspector to swap the texture on an image element that is already placed. See Images & icons.

Note

9-slice is passed straight through to the mod and is not previewed in the editor the canvas shows the plain texture.

Effect

Scrolls a texture across the sign the RSS “panner”.

Setting	Notes
Effect type	Linear panning scrolls smoothly; Step panning jumps in fixed steps.
Step frequency	How many steps per cycle. Only used by Step panning.
Animation speed	How fast it scrolls.
Effect scale	How large the scrolling texture is drawn.

An effect uses a texture just like an image element does, so the image browser is available for it too.

Selecting and arranging

Click an element on the canvas, or a row in the Layers list, to select it. The inspector then switches to that element’s settings the whole-sign settings stay available below them.

The layer list draws bottom-last: the row at the bottom of the list is drawn on top on the canvas. Drag a row’s handle to reorder, or use the action bar’s bring to front / send to back buttons.

Right-clicking an element on the canvas opens a menu with copy, cut, duplicate, delete and the layer-order actions.

Quick actions

The action bar above the canvas acts on whatever is selected:

Duplicate Bring to front Send to back Deselect Delete

They stay visible but disabled when nothing is selected, so the bar never reflows under your cursor.