I have created some graphics directly in Flash Cs4 using the drawing tools, making them 'drawing objects', yet they are pixelated when viewed in browsers. Within Flash they look crisp, but not when exported.
Here is a screenshot:
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why a vector in a movieclip becomes pixelated when the movieclips z value is set to a nagative value?for example:mcSphere.z = -500; looks awful.
View 1 RepliesInternally Flash obviously keeps a list of the primitives drawn using Graphics so I wondered if you have many such primitives in a Sprite, can you re-position/remove/alter individual items rather than clear and re-draw everything? Or is this deeper into the bowels of Flash than you're allowed (or recommended) to go?
View 4 RepliesI've seen the BitmapData object used for graphics a fair bit, especially in games. Many of these cases have done things in somewhat fundamentally different ways, and I was wondering what the best way generally is.
Method 1: Each animation frame is kept in a separate BitmapData object using an array.
Method 2: The animation is kept in a strip using a single BitmapData object and using the "sourceRect" parameter of copyPixels.
The draw and hitTest methods appear not to provide any "sourceRect" parameter. Most of the code I have seen using method 2 has worked around this by copying the bitmap frame into a temporary bitmap for these methods. This seems like quite a large processing overhead to me. Using method 1 this is generally not a problem, unless hitTest needs to be used with scaling and/or rotation, in which case a temporary transformed copy is still needed it seems as hitTest doesn't except a transformation.
I'm thinking method 1 is the better choice since it avoids having to make temporary copies for the most part, and I don't think it would waste much memory (just the duplicated width, height, etc values?). Is this generally true or is there a reason lots of people seem to do things the second way?
Also is there a better way to use hitTest for bitmaps that have been scaled, rotated, etc?
I have a code, that draws a horizontal line, then it turns into a slope, and at the end of the slope it draws a circle. Here's a code:
Code:
var xspeed:Number = 1; // defines increments for x of slope
var yspeed:Number = 2; // defines increments for y of slope
var hspeed:Number = 5; // horizontal line increments
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Create document 800x700 and put this code into main timeline. Now test movie As you can see, everything works great. But there is a problem. The circle is being drawn at 0 degree angle. But I want the circle to match the angle of the slope, so it looks like the slope and the circle are both at the same angle.
I've got a custom AS3 scrollbar that I need to modify. The scroll thumb (the draggable part of a scrollbar) is currently just done by drawing a rectangle. But I need it to look more like a real scrollbar. Not sure how to modify the below code to import/use a scroll thumb image:
scrollThumb = new Sprite();
scrollThumb.graphics.lineStyle();
scrollThumb.graphics.beginFill(0x0066ff);
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I have a program that dynamically draws a polygon wherever the user clicks on the screen. (using lineto, moveto) However this polygon is always behind the other symbol objects on the screen even though its added last in the childlist. Is there an issue with depth when drawing symbols vs. drawing with lines? How can I ensure my dynamic object will display in front?
View 3 RepliesHow can I Tween drawing a line mc.graphics.lineTo(); ? I just see tweener has an onUpdate property awesome.
View 0 RepliesI'm trying to understand how the Flex framework draws objects (Button, Label, Image, etc.). The Button class seems to draw itself by addChild()ing its ProgrammaticSkin. However, where in the framework is the Graphics object being passed around in the hierarchy to achieve the drawing. I want to get to the level of 2D API.
View 1 RepliesI need to draw on stage about 40,000 4x4 squares each a different color. The color is determined by an xml file. I have this working in as2 and have converted it to as3 the problem is the amount of time it takes to draw is causing cs4 to time out. I have extended the script time out to 60 seconds. In cs3 as2 it would draw the squares in about 15 seconds. I was hoping as3 cs4 would improve performance but seems to be the opposite. I have tried several methods such as adding children and various drawing variations. the bellow seems to work the best, but is still causing flash to crash.
ActionScript Code:
import flash.display.DisplayObject;
import flash.display.Graphics;
import flash.display.Shape;
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I purchased this Thermometer flash template everything works well data is being populated through an xml file but I want to put multiple Swf files on a page with different data.Is there a way I can use SWf Objects.js to call a flash var of the XML file in the browsers source code.This is the Action Script Code
ActionScript Code:
stop();
import caurina.transitions.Tweener;//import tween class
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;//define how stage scales
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I just need a simple code of drawing a text curve in flex
View 2 RepliesI'm working on a game, and to keep performance good, instead of addChild'ing 50 new sprites to the stage every second, I decided to have each player draw to their own bitmap, and then to the 'master' bitmap. This introduces an issue though: the second player would override all data the first player has put into to bitmap...My basic debugging proof of concept:
Code:
// bitmap test
import flash.display.Bitmap;
import flash.display.Bitmap;[code]......
I inherited a flash website about a year ago.. not sure what version it was originally done in. I've made changes on the model last year using CS3 Flash Action script 2, but don't remember the flash version when published. The audio in question is the music that plays in the background when you get on the website:
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When I changed the image of the model this last week using CS4, I published it as Flash8 actionscript 2... now, the music plays on Mac Safari and Mac Firefox, but not on the Windows versions of IE or Firefox..
this is the code called sound control
onClipEvent(load)
{
_root.soundstatus="on";
_root.mySound = new Sound(_level0);
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then there's the stop() that's used when the music is toggled off..
I've tried updating the flash player in Windows to the latest release, and I even tried republishing as flash 10, just not sure where to troubleshoot this..
i want to be able to draw and object with just code so the user can draw objects on the stage.
View 1 Repliesi'm drawing objects with the api and for some reason they're coming out upside down.
View 2 Repliesthe first thing I am doing is to draw a shape. Object Drawing is selected. I have clicked the rectangle shape tool, have selected a color and fill. I drag across the stage and a rectangular line appears, but when I let off the keys, it dissapears. No shape, no stroke, no fill.Invisible, gone, disappeared.What the heck am I doing wrong?
View 12 Replieswhen drawing an object and using that objetc to mask another layer im having trouble making more than one object act as the mask. Eg I draw a circle and use the mask function to mask an image, works fine, then i draw some more geometry (in the same layer) and it will not mask as the first object did. Is there any way I can 'Join' them togeter to act as one big mask?
View 2 RepliesI have a vector drawing object inside a parent movieclip.The drawing object is acting as a semi-transparent frame for and image on another layer. the problem is when I scale the parent movieclip the thickness of the drawing object is changing.I know that you can turn off scaling for lines and rectangles, but is there a way to do the equivalent for a vector drawing object?
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to make a short script in AS3 which will simply take some animated lines that are in a movieclip (pre-animated in library) and draw a 15px diameter circle around each vertex / point of the lines.
how to access the vertices of the lines in actionscript!
I have imported a lot of paths from an Adobe Illustrator document right into a flash file. The paths exists as Drawing Objects inside the scene. Using pure actionscript, how can I move a symbol following each of the lines, without using predefined Motion Guides.
EDIT: I've attached the Flash file, full of drawing objects.
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The question is: Are these drawing objects accessible through AS3 or I should convert them to symbols / whatever format necessary.
I have a little problem with counting all elements on stage. Flash, unfortunately is counting all objects on the stage without drawn objects (all shapes, including drawing objects, rectangles etc) all missed. Is there any way to count them?
View 2 RepliesThis seems like it should be fairly simple, but for some reason Im getting caught up when it comes to removing a layer from my drawing app, and when moving the layers up and down in the display list. My first problem is that when I do the (canvas.removeChild(layers[value]); it removes the child of the targeted layer, but it also removes the child of the objects before it? I think anyways.
The second problem is that my layerUp function works, but my layerDown does not, even though they are the same code? Confused I am indeed. I'm sure its fairly messy since Im just learning this stuff, so sorry for that too!
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I have a set of small circles(balls) on the stage, contained in an array. The array at different times in times in the program could have ballArray.length=1 or ballArray.length=125 or 48 or 0, etc.The balls float around the stage randomly too.I wish to have a function which will draw a line between all the points(balls or circles) in that array.So for example where there is 0 or 1 balls, there would be 0 lines drawn.Where there is 4 balls there would be 6 interconnections. as there would be six lines linking every object to each other object , exactly once per tick in the animation.[code]
View 3 RepliesHow can I draw objects relative to one another in AS3? For example I have a small object in the middle of a large object. Then I move the small object to the left (subtract x) but visually I see the large object move to the right and the small object stay still.
View 4 RepliesI've written a small program which detects my mouse movement and draws circles on the x- and y-position of the mouse.
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As you can probably see: after drawing a lot of circles the program slows down and the framerate makes the circles be placed with a large gap between them. I would guess that the program draws what is behind the current circle even though the user cannot see it?
So I've got problem with some drawing objects inside movieclip in my flash file... Setting width and height of flash to match browser's w&h got my movie clip to get correct values, but unfortunately drawing objects inside of it are not scaled as movieclip. Those object are just random stripes that got some tween on it acting as somekind of preloader... All graphics are pulled from ai file, so no AS was used to manipulate them, just pure tweening in design mode...So if my stage w & h are lets say 720 x 50, graphics inside movieclip are 1600 x 900 which match my monitor's resolution.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to make annotations on an image. I want to store all these annotations into a collection so that I can later remove or edit particular note(annotation).I'm creating a UIComponent instance for example markUp and doing
markUp.graphics.lineStyle(2, drawColor);
markUp.graphics.moveTo(x1, y1);
markUp.graphics.lineTo(x2, y2);
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I'm trying to draw a line between circles stored in an array. I have a button on the stage which adds another circle to the stage. My issue is I cannot draw a line between the most recent circle added to the array and the one that will be added next.
It is a bit complicated and I'm not an experienced programmer by any stretch of the imagination.
Anyway, here's my code:
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When I create drawing shapes I cant see any color or fill. I know there is a setting that need to be changed so I can see them. Here is a pick of what is happening on my screen
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