The transitions between sections is a bit harsh, I'd like to smooth it out some by fading from 1 color to the next or something.The captions don't sync up with the pictures the first time around until the pics are cached.When you click on the button of the section you are in, the slideshow stops.
View 5 RepliesI created an animation using the 3D rotation tool, but the quality, the rendering is very bad, rough jaggy pixelated edges. Is there any way to improve the quality.
View 3 RepliesI have been trying to figure out a good strategy to perform a bitmap crop using Actionscript3. For example: I have a picture of a car and I want to crop out the car from the image alone and feather the edges so that they do not look jagged.
I am a flash noob and have only been using it for a couple of weeks. I've tried a couple of options and here is the last one that I have come up with it: I place red dots on stage that are draggable so that you can outline the object you want to crop and the dots are the bounds for a gradientFill that is used as the bitmap's mask. (I am using a radial gradient ... so the results are far from what I want, since the car is not an oval).
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1) How can I fade just the edges of this custom-shaped fill outlined by the red dots?
2) I want to save the image out to a file once it's cropped. What strategy would be better for doing this using a BitmapFill or a GradientFill as a Mask (If it's possible with both)?
3) I may be using this strategy to crop faces later on.. anyone know of any good face detection APIs for as3? (also edge detection APIs)
Recently a client of mine decides he wanted rounded edges for his page vs. the typical square edges. This was after the initial design and at the point where it is almost complete.I told the client that in order to do this we would have to go to a full Flash web page meaning a full browser Flash page (everything is already flash).Now I told him that we could do this but because it was a new design and as you know that there is much involved in doing something like this i.e. all the paths will have to be changed because it will have to reside inside a mc etc.if there is an actual way to make the stage rounded only for future knowledge.I know I can make a round edge square or rectangle but it still has square edges at outer edge of the stage.
View 5 RepliesCan anyone think of a clever, low-impact way to draw a line that has a slight rough texture, as if drawn with a thick pencil on paper? The only two ways I can think of would be:
1) Knowing the two points that you're normally lineTo() to, you can can do a bit of math to draw a long, thin rectangle from those two points, and bitmapFill it with a textured bitmap with an alpha channel.
2) Knowing the two points, and then figuring out the distance between, you can draw a single circle at xxx intervals along that line's point, slightly varying the radius of the circle and the x/y value so it appears rough. Is there a simpler way someone can think of?
I just upgraded from Flash CS3 to Flash CS5, and I've been playing with the various new features. However, I've just encountered an odd problem that I can't seem to find a solution to. In the past, I've made animated GIFs in CS3 by exporting them with the "Smooth" box unchecked. This was really convenient for me because not only could I export crisp pixel bitmaps from Flash, but I could edit it in another program later. I was planning on making some GIF animations via this process with the aid of the bone tool in CS4 and 5.
When I tried exporting frames of of a figure created with the bone tool in CS5, however, I got images that were fuzzy and often had distorted colors. After some time, I realized that this was because in CS3, I had exported the images from ActionScript 2 files, while the bone tool only works in ActionScript 3 files. Is it not possible to export "rough" GIFs from ActionScript 3 files, or is there a trick to doing that that I'm somehow missing?
I have created a pie preloader(preloader.zip) which is working fine. Same preloader I am trying to incorporate in a xml based slideshow(slideshow.zip) to show image loading process but some how I got stuck. I am new to flash. Suggestions are welcome.
1. How to solve the problem of preloader2. Is it possible to integrate everything in a movie clip (including AS). I mean no AS on main time line but inside the movie clip. It would be much easier then to to create multiple slideshows by duplicating mc and changing the xml file.
i have a question about text in a slideshow. i know how to make a basic photo slideshow with external images. but now what i want to do is add 4-5 paragraphs of text next to each photo (with possible scrolling). the text will be different on each photo.
View 1 RepliesI didnt see a place in preferences to keep edges hidden. I have some text that has a dotted line around it. I can hide it with hide edges, but as soon as I select them and let go, the edges come back. maybe their not edges since theyre dotted. maybe its flash telling me somethings not set up correctly? anyone?
View 2 RepliesIs it possible to blur the edges of a movieClip, and only the edges? If I use the blur filter, It blurs the entire image, not just the edges.
Basically, I have a flv file within a movieClip, and I need the edges of the video to look feathered.
I want to make a rotating cube with rounded edges.I already saw lots of cube sources, but i need one with rounded edges.My maths actionscript is not so good.
View 1 RepliesMy file is going great but I would like it to only pan right or left when the mouse reaches close to the edge and stop while I am working within the middle area. Here is my panning code and the file can be viewed at [URL].
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I want to make a rotating cube with rounded edges. I already saw lots of cube sources, but i need one with rounded edges. My maths actionscript is not so good.
View 3 RepliesI don't seem to be able to find the right wording to find my answer anywhere.How do I determine where an MC's center is relative to its edges?I'm developing a tool that a variety of noobs (as if I'm not still a noob) will be using, and I don't trust them to keep art with 0,0 being the top left corner.How do I figure out that the left edge is now at -111px, and the top at -52, and the right at 12, and the bottom at 334?
View 3 RepliesI've found using the 3D rotation tool to give rough/jaggy/pixelated edges to my vector clips, even after using:cache as bitmap"stage.quality = StageQuality.BEST;" in Document classIs there a way around this?
View 5 RepliesI have seen people complain about this, but no work arounds. The blurry eddges I see on the rounded portion of round rectangles is awful. IS there a workaround?
View 5 RepliesFlash has some serious problems with jagged edges on curved shapes. When adjusting a curve on a shape, flash shows that it is curved and then on releasing the mouse it turns into a sharp edge
View 1 RepliesI'm creating a shape in code based on some random points and then using it as a mask for an image. What I'm hoping to do is have the mask fade the image to transparent around the edges. I know I can do this using a gradient mask, the issue is how do I create a gradient on a shape that just fades out around the edges? The shape is not regular, so a radial or linear fill just won't cut it.
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I want the map's movement to be constrained to the edges of the stage. Or in other words, if you move your mouse from the left edge of the stage to the right, you only just see the right edge map, whereas now, it dissappears off the other side of the stage.
I have recently started Learning Actionscript 3.0 out of my own interest. I was trying on making a ball bounce off the edges of the stage using the Actionscript 3.0. But the code not working. The Ball happens to move on X and Y, till it hits the end of the stage, and then it just does not reverse its direction to give the effect of bounce, it gets stuck to the X axis and moves out of the stage. I tried to make changes, but failed.
Code:
function bounceBall(evt:Event):void {
var vx:Number=Math.random()*10+5;
var vy:Number=Math.random()*10+5;
var radius:Number=mcBall.height/2;
var top:Number=0;
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way programmically in flash to detect the edges of imported artwork (artwork that has transparent background)? I am hoping to build something that detects the edges (or boundaries) of artwork and then place other objects around those boundaries. (so they dont touch too much or overlap).
View 4 RepliesLong time lurker who can't find an answer thatfits this specific problem. I apologize if it has been answered. In the pic below,notice the edges. They look great on the stage, but I can't get the rendered .swfto look the same.
View 1 RepliesIn my application i am having one input field and the text fields edges are connected,that means with in one ellipse[movie clip] the input field will appear,if i increase the width and height of the field then ellipse should be increase as per the size of input field.
View 1 RepliesI want to make a rotating cube with rounded edges. I already saw lots of cube sources, but i need one with rounded edges. My maths actionscript is not so good.
View 0 RepliesI am making a slideshow background which adjusts to the width of the browser. However, whenever I resize the browser, the background color is visible for a moment along the edges. How can I get rid of this. I know that it is possible. If you look at the following site, the images resize perfectly:
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Can I put a blur on a dynamic mask to get faded edges like this:
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var square:Sprite = new Sprite();
square.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000);
square.graphics.drawRect(target.x, target.y, target.width+5,
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I have a scrollbar that I want faded edges on the content mask. The content is all dynamic loaded from xml.
When I draw a perfectly rectangular sprite, where all the corners land on perfect integer locations, then there is no problem. However when my sprite as an irregular shape ( with diagonal lines ), or it does not land on perfect integer locations, then Flash does some kind of blending / smoothing around the edges. This is bad.
Here is an example:
ActionScript Code:
var s:Shape;
s= new Shape();
s.graphics.beginFill(0x0000ff, 1);
s.graphics.moveTo(0, 0);
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And here is an image of what the above produces:
From the code, I drew a green rectangle and blue one, both with a slight skew. So the only 2 colors I want to see are blue and green. But you can see from the image, that along the diagonal of the shapes, there is some kind of blending going on. Flash is using a light green, and a light blue in certain places. Presumably this makes things look better, but I need to prevent this. I need each pixel to be either green or blue or nothing (white). How can I stop Flash from blending the pixels like its doing?
Is there a way that during a browser resize and my symbol gets repositioned, it wont become blurry? As in perhaps a way so that it doesn't include the decimals in the new position/rounds up or down?
View 3 RepliesDoes anyone know how to make a random character (preferably easily defined as alpha or numeric or both) "code" effect in AS3? Here's some examples of what I'm looking for. roughly... [URL] (both of these examples are AS 1.0) I'm making a sort of "futuristic terminal interface" and want some random numbers / characters generated on the edges. I used to know how to do this before I switched to AS3.
View 2 RepliesIs it possible to get a 'feathered' mask in Flash CS4 where the edges of the mask gradually transition to 0 alpha? I tried to set this up by creating drawing a shape with the pen tool, turning into a movieclip, then filling the original outline with a white (or lime green) center to black on outside, with the outside fading to an alpha value of zero. When I apply this as a mask, however, the borders are completely sharp rather than the layer below being 'partially' masked.
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