I have a collection of animated sprites with a brown background and I want to know how to make the brown transparent. Is there some kind of color keying in flash? The brown is #5E4229 by the way.
View 2 RepliesI found FlashObject script easy to understand and apply ... in part due to good instructions and the handy 'Generator.'
It validated W3C too!
One problem. My background color turned to white. How do I specify a background color, or transparency?
I have two backgrounds on different layers, and an object that can be dragged around. What I want to happen is that an area around the object should be transparent so you can see the background behind the first background, and when the object is moved, the transparent area should also move. Kind of like a "see-through" effect.
View 2 Repliescan i dynamically load a movie with transparency background? and one more thing i load a jpg with loadmovie command but the size of the jpg in pixel is not the same with the output of the fla..
View 3 RepliesThis has been bugging me for a little, and some of the examples I have tried to find throw me in loops and they have been wrong. [url]...
Or if you have ever played "Scorched Earth" you will see that when some part of the terrain is destroyed, it punches out the pixels perfectly when a shot is fired into the ground, to reveal the picture behind the main picture with the terrain.
I ran into an odd problem a week ago that I haven't been able to fix. I'm new to Flash so sorry if this has been discussed but my research has turned up nothing. I'm using Flash Develop. I managed to duplicate the problem in a simple program: I set up one large bitmap for the background, not transparent. I then add another large bitmap on top of that, the second layer background, as a child of the main bg. This layer has transparency so you can see the bg through the trees and such. Then I stack a lot of sprites on top of each other, all with transparency. They can be children of the main bg or the second layer bg, doesn't matter. Where the transparency of the sprites overlap the second layer background disappears completely to reveal the main background (like a window around the sprite stack.) The bitmaps I'm using are from embedded png files.
I found that 23 transparent objects causes the 24th object and beyond to disappear. And it only happens when I have a mask set to the main background (a simple filled square for clipping the child sprites that move off-screen.) Also the problem goes away while the background is moving. My project features many objects near each other so the chance of this problem occurring is pretty high. Its not game-breaking but I'm new to flash and my project is nearly complete (and large) so I'm hoping there is something simple I can do to fix this.
I am using the below given code to try to make the transparency 0, but I still am unable to make the background become absolutely transparent.
<mx:Style>
global {
modalTransparencyBlur: 0;
[code].....
I have a movieclip and I am loading on it an external swf. The mc is just a square box basically...it is set to 69% alpha/transparent in the "Color effect: style: alpha" settings.The problem is, when I load the swf now the swf is also transparent (seems like 69%)...I basically want the mc to be transparent, but the swfs that load w/in it should not be transparent.
example code:
mc.createEmptyMovieClip("newClip", this.getNextHighestDepth());
mc.newClip.loadMovie("some.swf");
i've a MovieClip and i would like to change the transparency of this movieclip how can i do?
View 1 Repliesmc1.mask = mc2
mc2 is a movie clip that is 50% alpha. How can I mask mc1 and keep the alpha transparency? That's about it.
Here is my code:
var menu = new Menu ();
menu.x = 0;
menu.y = 0;[code]...........
This works, but transparency varies for each element MovieClip separately, but I would like that would have changed the whole MovieClip transparency as a single image.
Menu(); is generated from XML.
I'm an actionscript dude - I'm working on a papervision game.
I have an asset of which is 127 pngs in a sequence for an animation.
I can happily project this onto my papervision plane. Problem is, there is no transparency. I Can't use a BitmapFileMaterial as I have many pngs -
If I have a piece of a function that is telling Flash to:
// show a hover color
var col = new Color(this.background);
col.setRGB(0xf4faff);
How do I tell Flash to call a MovieClip as opposed to setRGB for the background MovieClip?
i need help about a MC created by AS 3. This MC is Reflect class that extends MC class; when i instance it, the newer Mc is always on the foreground, even if its layer is on the backgrond. So what i have to do?
View 3 Repliesthis is a movieClip with a textField placed over it. I would like to change the movie clips color when clicked, but not the text color.
var myColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
myColorTransform.color = 0xFFFFFF;
mc.transform.colorTransform = myColorTransform;
When I try the code above it changes the whole movie clip color, text included. Is there a way to just change the background movieclip color and keep the text un changed?
I am using MX 04 and I have a rather large background for my movie 2046x396 and I made it into a mc to pan right to left... it looks ok in the designer and plays fine in the library, but with I testrun the movie it looks like the image is getting smeared on the screen... the movie speed is 60fps and the background mc I have tried from 100 to 300 frame motion tween.
View 0 RepliesI have a MovieClip I named mcGrid and I can't figure how to tile it as a background in my flash project. Is this even possible? If so can someone send me in the right direction.
View 2 Replieshas a embeded movie clip that contains a video, as you can see it has a good quality videoonce the site has loaded i want the embedded video to play as a background, but from the frame per second count you can see that it decreases to an average of 7/9 fps. this does not seem like a good idea,
View 6 RepliesI have the following package[code]...
1. The class instantiates and adds a number as text on top of the image that I created the MovieClip class from
2. As the main class of the fla rotates images it calls the loadItem() function of each corresponding button.
3. That function starts the timer and, on each tick of the timer, the background image changes.
What is happening right now with this code is that the new image (that I want to be the background image behind the text) is coming in on top of the text.
Is there a way to simply replace the image currently loaded into the MovieClip.
When the xml file of images is loaded, I place each image into an element of an Array so I can handle them individually. Problem I am having now is this. When image at element 1 is pressed, it should become one of my movie clips background. I am using some code I was using in as3, when the image wasnt in an Array and it worked fine. Now I am in AS2, and the image is in an Array, it doesnt seem to work. Additionally, I get no errors whatsoever.
The code for this is
picHolder[1].onPress = function() {
picHolder[1].width = card.width;
picHolder[1].height = card.height;
picHolder[1].x = 0;
picHolder[1].y = 0;
card.addChild(picHolder[1]);
};
Whereby picHolder[1] is an image, and card is my movie clip. If I do picHolder[1].startDrag(true), I can pick up and drag the image. So, I know I am dealing with the correct image here. Should I be doing the above differently when working with an Array?
On the stage I have a movieclip with an animation inside it, at the moment I've given to its background the same color of the stage to simulate a transparence.Now I've added some decorations to the bottom left corner of the stage and this movieclip lays a bit over the decoration showing that in truth the movieclip is not transparent because it covers part of the decoration.Is there a way to make the movieclip background really transparent?I've checked where I apply colors to elements, but there is not a "transparent" option, or at least I havent seen it.
View 5 RepliesI am coding in AS3 and I am using BitmapData to take a snapshot of a movieclip. Is there a way to have the end result BitmapData to support transparency?
How do I take a snapshot of a movieclip without any background?
I have created a scrolling background as per the instructions on website [url]...and I want to place objects on top of it. To get the effect that I want the instructions say to do the following:
"1. Put the Cloud ActionScript in a MovieClipCreate a new MovieClip, cut all the ActionScript from the main stage and paste it into the MovieClip. Go back to the main stage. Open the library and drag an instance of the Movieclip with the ActionScript on Stage. Now the dynamic clouds are inside a static Movieclip, which means you can now put things above it without using dynamic attachment. [code]...
Im trying to use a Flv video effect like a movie clip in As3...
I want this Flv effect to work like my background on my WebSite... i already imported the flv and convert it to a movieclip... but i dont dont the code to make it work like my background always in loop.. and when i enter a certain frame...
I am just wondering how u make a movieclip the background to a flash page using coding from as3? Also, how would u get that movieclip, to be the perfect scale? For example, the movieclip does not stretch, distort, but yet fills the screen of a computer no matter wat the computer's set resolution is. Lastly, how do u get a pixelated / halftonish effect on ur movie clips? (the "experiences" page has an example of what I am talking about.) The site below has an example of everything I am describing: [URL]
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to do use the following code:
ActionScript Code:
var my_color:Color = new Color(closeText);
my_color.setRGB(0xFF0000); // any color
I get the following compiler errors though: Symbol 'closeText', Layer 'Layer 1', Frame 1, Line 11046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Color. Symbol 'closeText', Layer 'Layer 1', Frame 1, Line 11180: Call to a possibly undefined method Color.
I have some text placed on the 'canvas' in Flash. I also draw some stuff in an onEnterFrame function on the main timeline. The stuff I draw in the onEnterFrame gets placed behind the text I have on the canvas. I'd really like to have the stuff I draw in front, but I don't know how to accomplish this.
View 1 RepliesI'm very close to achieving the desired effect, however, i have been stopped dead in my tracks. I Used Pom's Real/Fake Mask Drag tutorial, so I have that set, however, my problem is getting the ripples to mask...
I have the background, and then I have the other movieclip that is supposed to mask the background (ripple).However, it either does not mask, or it only masks the first frame of the "ripple" mc...
(oh, btw...the ripple MC is dragged by the mouse, so the ripples follow the mouse. I saw an effect like this, a looooong time ago, probly in the days of Flash 3, and i was curious how to go about it, so I have been trying for the last few weeks...)
I want a MovieClip to play as its loading the content in the background, I already have the MC animated, the "loader", how do I do this! I tried this way
frame1
ifFrameLoaded ("end") {
gotoAndPlay ("Start");
}
frame 2
gotoAndPlay(1);
layer 2
loader
Thats all it works the only problem is, that I realized is that its dependent of connection speed, what I mean is that if you have a 200KB/s connection it will load so fast that it doesnt play the complete animation and I set the simulate download speed to like 50KB/s and it does play completely. So my question is will this happen when it's online?
how u make a movieclip the background to a flash page using coding from as3? also, how would u get that movieclip, to be the perfect scale? for example, the movieclip does not stretch, distort, but yet fills the screen of a computer no matter wat the computer's set resolution is.lastly, how do u get a pixelated / halftonish effect on ur movie clips? (the "experiences" page has an example of what i am talking about.)the site below has an example of everything i am describing:
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