ActionScript 2.0 :: Dissolving Text Effect - An Easier Way?
Oct 6, 2006
i'm just wondering if there is an easier way to dissolve text effect other than the frame by frame motion tween way because i have around 3 sentences i need to have done...
if anyone knows of any pre scripts or plugings etc...or an easier way via AS please give us a shout!
I have a button inside a movieclip, inside a movieclip, inside a movieclip, etc..So when I click the button, i want it to call another movieclip. The movieclip is inside the same movieclip as the button. So instead of doing _root.MovieClip.Movieclip,.. etc.. how can I do it?
I really like the text effect Pom used in the footer contest, and would like to use the same grid-type method of creating mc letters but with a different effect. i understand how to change the parameters and shapes of the letters, but can't seem to figure out which piece of code is purely for the explosion effect. basically, i want the letters but with the 'Repel' effect from[URL] here is Pom's AS:
[AS] cellSize=3; radius=10; damp=.85;
[code]....
and here is the .fla using the repel effect using pre-made mc:
I am following this: [URL]. And parsing the logs to get the stats of applications is hard if theres heavy traffic its hard to get everything to parse right. Would it be easier to import all the stats into mysql db once an hour that way its easier to work with?
seems a little complicated for replacing an image in a movieclip with something else. It seems like a hack actually. Is it really so hard to switch a png (maybe of a different size) in a movieclip with something else? It also appears the livedocs at this time, are down. If it gets any harder I might switch to silverlight if it's not based off hack(ECMA)script
I've been searching around forever trying to find a way to make traversing nested display lists more of a 1-line possibility.In AS2 you could grab a clip just by _container.clip1.nestedclip2.nestedclip3 and it was blatently simple.In AS3, is there any way to do that?So far my only methods are keeping a class level reference to important parts of the UI or doing a painful series of getChildByName chains until I drill down to it:[code]The casting makes the getChildByName method possible.
the thing which differs is _root.vote (which is from 1-10) and the (s == _level0.item9.icon) which is from 1 to 10 too .. is there a way to make this easier, coz when i have to change sumthing i have stroll through all the buttons and change it ...
I am still using flash MX. I'm pulling random text from a textfile (array.txt) into movieclip instance textbox.[code]All is good, but now my question is if I can have a text effect as well. For example having the random quotes typed out as they appear.
I am using flash to create an animation where text, once converted into a movieclip or a button, fades at a certain point. To do this I am using the text tool and converting the text into a movieclip.
I am trying to make the text fade away by using the alpha property, but the preview will never adjust the movieclips alpha value. I've tried embedding the font and linking it but it still just doesn't work.
Can anyone tell me if there are any FREE resources for additional Text Effects for Flash 8 Pro?I've dabbled with the conventional glow, stretch, spin, rotate, blur type of transitions over the last couple of weeks, so now have an appetite to try something new.I've found some tutorials around the net on specific single effects, but would relish finding a small group of add-on effects somewhere!
This is a follow up to the second question started on [URL].. regarding using a typewriter effect again in a new frame of the same movie.
I should also clarify, that although the effect will be the same, the output file called and xy textField coordinates and different so therefore will generate new text and position on stage. Would that be related to the URLRequest and var textField? The code again is:
I'm trying to get the bt text over effect here:[URL] I've set-up a simple mc button and applied the text effect script (below) to the over state in the mc - But I can't get it 2 work. Grateful for any input going - .fla attached
recreate this text effect? http:[url].....Here's my version: http:[url]....
http:[url]....The trained eye can probably see that the original version looks much better. Why is that? Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong, or could this text have been made using a different technique?(whether I use Flash or Photoshop shouldn't matter as their text effects are pretty much identical)
does someone know how to create a similar scrolling text effect like seen within the content sections on [URL]... looks like a mix of a scrolling text effect with some colour and positioning tweening.
I'm looking for a text effect that loads the text through xml, the text appears letter by letter, coming from and _x and _y making a trail of letters and forming the phrase.
I'm attempting to create a dry erase board style animation effect in my flash movie where I'm erasing the text, like a dry erase board type effect. I've tried doing a frame by frame mask animation and it's not turning out very well. Has anyone attempted this before? Are there any tutorials or maybe after effects > flash tricks?
how do you change the text inside of a text control when a user has clicked a button. I could not find a way to do this. I used an event handler to input a .xml to a string and then to the text control. This doesn't seem to work.
The last I have been using Flash was around 4 years ago and I have forgotten quite a bit. I remember I used SWISH Lite to create a typing effect (as a blinking cursor is typing a line of text one by one) and later i just could take this generator animation of my text and add it to my Macromedia Flash.I have installed the new SwishMax Trial, but I really don't recognize where I have to go in order to get this text effect generator running.
Does anyone know how to make an LED scrolling text effect? This is the best way I can describe it as I don't want scrolling text in the normal way, I want it to be on one line moving right to left with very few characters. Like you might see in an elevator or shop window on an LED scroller.
I'm a web designer, but I deal with HTML, PHP, JavaScript, not so much ActionScript. I have a new client, and they've already had a website designed completely in Flash. Now they only want certain elements of it, and the rest in HTML. See, the website uses the ripple effect to make images and text look as if you were sticking your finger in water - it follows the mouse. So, I want to take 3 different smaller Flash movies out of this huge, big one. But when I do, the ripple effect no longer works. Here is the action code:
import flash.display.BitmapData; var map1:BitmapData = new BitmapData(900, 600, true, 0xFF0000); this.createEmptyMovieClip("bmp1", 10);bmp1.attachBitmap(map1, 0, "auto", true ); var blur = new flash.filters.BlurFilter(8,8,5); [Code] .....
I know I'll need to change L2 - the 900 to whatever width and the 600 to whatever height, but that's about all I understand.
I recently view a Lee Brimelow Tutorial on a Write on Text Effect in Flash 8 AS2. I learned a little AS2 when first learned flash 2 years ago, but one CS3 came out I focused on AS3, so I am not fluent enough in both to translate.