For 2 weeks now, i have been trying to work out this issue and still i have had no luck.. i dont even know what im looking for.
See image attached to explain better than words.
My idea is i need to generate a nice curve between graphical points but in a way that produces smooth curves at runtime.
First i want to say its my first post and i've been diging straight up gold from this site and i love it and everyone out there smart enough to give out solutions.So basically am writing a game and i have bezier curve that controls where an actor moves. Am using only 3 points (start, control1, end) and everything is fine.Now i want to create a bezier curve that passes through a certain point (r1) at t = 0.5 . The problem being that i have my start point, my end point and my point (r1) at t=0.5, and i need to find the control point.
View 1 RepliesI'm attempting to make a curve drawing tool a bit easier to use.Rather than drawing a basic curve and then clicking on the control point to change it, I would like the user to be able to click on the curve itself to change it, much as you do in the FlashIDE.So, given start and end points, and a point on the curve, how do you determine the control point for use with the MX API?(I googled this, but found mostly info on cubic rather than quadratic curves)
View 3 RepliesI'm attempting to make a curve drawing tool a bit easier to use. Rather than drawing a basic curve and then clicking on the control point to change it, I would like the user to be able to click on the curve itself to change it, much as you do in the FlashIDE.
So, given start and end points, and a point on the curve, how do you determine the control point for use with the MX API?
I was hoping someone could help me working out some advanced data reformatting. What I'm hoping for is a function where I can input a value along with an array of key positions like so:
function remap(percentage:Number, keypoints:Array) { ...
The array would start with the minimum and end with the maximum point, with nested key points along the way. For example, I would input something like remap(0.25, [0:0,80:50,100:100] ) and the function would 'imagine' a spline curve graph from (0,0)-(100,100) with a key point of (80,50), then return the y value that is 25% along that graph.
I try to calculate all the points on a curve.
The curve decided by the width(X on the picture) and height(Y on the picture) properties of a movieclip.The distance between each green point on curve is the same.
I have a world map on which I display some data. I read long and lat coordinates for two countries from an XML file which is updated with different coordinates everytime. I then map the coordinates to X-Y axis using some projection method.
So, I have x-y coordinates for two countries. I wanna draw a curved line between those countries but curveTo method draws the curve in one shot. I want to animate the curve drawing part so it looks like it is being drawn real time.
I'm trying to draw a curve based on 24 data points. I want to draw a curved line based on the average of these 24 points. I can draw a line from point to point no problem, but would like a smooth curve. The white dashed line is what I'm trying to achieve:
View 2 RepliesI need to position objects equally spaced, on the perimeter of a circle. Question is: How can i find the points on the circle based on the number of objects i need to position, and how can i translate these points into another movieclip's coordinates? i thought to make a loop, and for each object (based on it's index in the loop) create a line from the center of the circle with a degree of 360/loop length * object index, and find the point where this line crosses the circle's perimeter.
I dont know though, how to actually implement my idea, i dont know the whole 'finding points' area etc, and I am not at all sure that my idea is the most light and effective solution. This thing i'd like to do (i think) is quite a common task, if you want a circular menu, or whatever, but i havent found anything anywhere around that could shed some light...
This is the happening place to discuss anything and everything related to the Finding the Distance Between Two Points tutorial.
View 5 RepliesUsing the code below I get an error message 1013: The private attribute may be used only on class property definitions.
View 4 RepliesBasically I'm using the curveTo function to draw some lines for flight paths, what I'm not sure how to do is dynamically finding the curve points, so for example if you look at the ryan air site: [URL]
current_line.graphics.curveTo(curveX, curveY, map.mouseX, map.mouseY);
I need to find the curveX and curveY
This is more of a question of logic than coding.. but here goes. I've got an array of points, and when plotted on a graph in flash it shows something like this:The blue points just highlight the points of each spike. While the red points are points I want to find.My question is, how do I find the red points on each spike?At first I tried sorting through the array for the highest points, but that didn't give me all the red points as some blue points are higher than the red points.Just by looking at the graph I can immediately see the points I need, but it's a bit harder to find those using code..
View 10 RepliesI want to curve a dynamic text from a straight line to circular curve (using a slider). I have placed the characters of the string in each textfield created at runtime.
View 3 RepliesI have a curveTo an anchor point and a control point.Then I have a function that will return the x and y of a point along that curve if I give it a number as a percentage of the curve (0 to 1).It looks like this, and works perfectly..
Code:
function drawOnCurve( interval:Number, x0,y0,x1,y1,x2,y2)
{
interval = Math.max( Math.min( 1, interval ), 0 );[code]....
x0,y0 are the start point, x1,y1 the control point and x2,y2 the final anchor point.But... I want to give it a _y value instead of a percentage (interval) and it return where on the curve that would intersect.
I am trying to develop a Quadratic Bezier Curve using the graphics.curveTo() method. Initially when i drag mouse to draw the shape, i use start point and end point of mouse to draw the curve line. I assume control point at any position below or up to the line. An draw the curve using this control point. some what like:-
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Now i add a tip on this curve segment. I have x and y position of tip. I want to change the curve segment by dragging tip. but now i don't have the exact control point according to tip position. If i use tip coordinate as control point it reduce the height of curve and now tip does not lie on the curve segment. What i have to do is calculate the exact control point on the basis of tip coordinate. But i failed to get this point.
In Flex/Actionscript.When writing an on mouseMove event on a Canvas control for example, how could I check to see what control if any is under the mouse pointer at a particular coordinate?
View 1 RepliesI am using using Flash Builder to create an AS3 video player which needs to support Closed Captioning. However, I am not using the FLVPlayback component. Is there a way of doing something like addASCuePoint() to flash.media.Video;, or is my only option using Flash' Timer to do my own check?
View 2 RepliesHow can I translate bezier pen anchor and control Points into drawing API code? I would like to design my shapes by hand in flash or illustrator, but have the final application draw them on the fly via the drawing api. The only way I can think of is to create a pen tool/drawing application in flash first, and record as you draw.
View 1 RepliesI have been tasked with trying to create a drawing tool that draws dotted lines as you drag the mouse across the stage. I can easily capture the points on MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE and store them in a vector and then draw the points as dots:
The problem is that I need to calculate evenly distributed points on an ever growing Vector of points so I can only draw the line between say every 5th point (say using modulus). I have been battling away with Bezier curve equations both Quadratic and Cubic but still can't quite figure out how to convert my Vector of points into an evenly distributed Vector of Points without sucking the life from the CPU.
I'm draving a loooong curve and i want to see what is the length of that, how to do that?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to bend 2 parallel lines into a circle, but with a motion tween, it curves under eachother... (see att)how would I make them curl to a circle
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I am using the code attached below to make dynamic text curve.
My question is: How can I invert the curve or arc, while making sure that it still reads the same? up to down.
How can I animate a curve being drawn with as3 drawing api.I am not interested in masking it out or other tricks. I am interested in drawing it whith the api.This would be the equivalent, but only a straight line:
var steps:Number = 30;
var currentStep:Number = 0;
var startPoint:Point = new Point(100,100);
[code]....
I use Loader class to load a picture,such as example.jpg,and I know if I want to realize fade in effect,I can use following code in Event.ENTER_FRAME:sprite.alpha+=0.05.When I run above code,I can get a fade in effect of example.jpg. But the fade in effect is for the whole example.jpg, now I want to fade in the example.jpg with a special curve,such as number 9,the example.jpg fade in along number 9 curve. I guess it shoud have a mathematical model can realize this special fade in effect,anyone could give me the model of fade in along special curve?
View 3 Replieswhat I am trying to do is calculate the position of a point along a curve, what I want to do is create a function where i am able to determine where a point intersects the curve when I provide an X value.I have created a simple diagram to illustrate what I am looking for:So assuming I know the x,y of each black dot, and the x of the red dot, how do I calculate it's y value?
View 2 Repliesposed by some points( an array) with a predefined length( in pixels) from position 0 to X(final) on stage. Now, i modify the points moving on the stage, making new arcs, including the point 0 and x points...So, i need to calculate the length of the new path to make another calcs..
View 9 RepliesI got a curve(e.g. movieclip) which i want my character to go on when i press left/right arrow. How to make that?
View 2 Repliesi have a bezier curve that is generated dynamically now i want to mask an image with it to produce a cut of face functionality just like in [URL]?
View 1 Replieshow to curve a text in runtime?
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