From this tutorial:[URL] Pretty neat effect, I wanted to use this for a gallery transition, but I have a problem. Does anybody have an idea how to know when image has been completely revealed so I can stop the enter frame listener and remove this growing masks, otherwise this is pretty useless
View 6 RepliesI have a drawing thats made up of (closed) ovals, which i have imported into flash from Illustrator. The ovals are simple "drawing objects", 0.1 thick with no fill. I need to find a way to animate these ovals "drawing" themselves.
View 1 Replieshow do you make a line grow into a circle?
View 13 RepliesI am wanting to achieve a particular image effect using Adobe Flash (Actionscript 3). I would like an image (width 200px, height 600px) to appear on the timeline by being revealed by different sized circles (varying from 30px-5px). I am thinking of using an image mask and creating seperate circles across the timeline, so that when the movie plays, each random sized circle, one after one, will reveal the image at the end. So this is probably going to be quite time consuming. Also, does anyone know of any flash image effects helpers in general, I'm looking for something similar like green socks except for image effects...
View 2 RepliesI am doing a multiple mask where an image is being masked by multiple little squares that drop down.I created 2 layers, mask and masked for each square and image.That part works fine, however, I wanted to load a different image everytime when the page loads, I used the example on this site:
choice = Math.round(Math.random()*6);
switch (choice) {
case 0 :[code]...
Now, every little square load a random image instead of all loading the same image. Is it possible to ask all other masked layer to call on that one random image? What should I do?
i am looking to create a growing element, that will appear to be like a tree/flower growing onto the screen, slowly. i would like it to be randomly generated and not too processor intensive.
View 3 RepliesI am looking for the most efficient way to create a circle mask on a BitmapData, so that everything inside the circle is visible and everything outside the circle is black. Here is my current code:
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As the radius of this circle is going to be changing rapidly, storing the mask would be useless. how to make this more efficient, preferably keeping to methods that can use GPU accleration?
So I've made a circular preloader made with some shapes and masks. Everything like this works. What I want to do now is add a movieclip of animations to the stage and make it look like this movie clip is in the progress circle of the preloader. So what I did is create a movieclip container to hold all of the shapes that animate on loading. I then used that movieclip container to mask the movieclip of animations.What happens when published is the movieclip of animations (the particles) loads over the shapes, but all of their masks are gone. So it's as if when I applied the mask to the container, all of it's children and their masks stopped working. Is there a way to correctly do this?
View 2 RepliesDoes anyone know how to mask in a circle? To try to clarify: If you had a clock face with the minute hand at 12, as the minute hand sweeps round it reveals a picture. Here is an example of what I'm looking to do (the orange logo at the top)[URL]
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for (i=0; i<200; i++) {
circle.duplicateMovieClip("circle"+i, this.getNextHighestDepth());
randX = Math.floor(random(Stage.width));
randY = Math.floor(random(Stage.height));
this.banner.setMask(this["circle"+i]);
this["circle"+i]._x = randX;
this["circle"+i]._y = randY;
}
Circle is a movieclip that has a circle starting at 2px by 2px and expands to 100 by 100. Banner is just a movieclip, but I would like these expanding circles to act as a mask to reveal the banner. This should work, but isn't, I know I am overlooking something.
maybe point me towards a better way to mask. png file is way too big. I have been using the mask layer option to create my own mask around a jpg image by drawing around it on the mask layer. There has to be a fetter and faster way to do this. Is it possible to maybe have a specific color range have an alpha value of 0. Similar to green screening whereas If I put the item I want to clip on a green background flash will auto take out the green for me. and by auto I mean action script maybe. I think this can be done but im not finding it.
how are these guys clipping these images [URL] they have the movie clips set up where the black background on the 3 layers of shoes is getting masked out. When I go into the shoe movie clips I see there is a black background but it just disappears when I go back to main timeline.
I need to get a random xy value from a circle, for example going to spread circles on stage randomly. Its quiet easy to spread the circle in a square. Here that was done.
var MC:MovieClip=new MovieClip();
var squareWidth:Number=200;
var squareHeight:Number=200;
[code].....
What I want is something kind of like this:However, I don't want it to respond to the mouse at all. I just want random sized circles, on different layers, and different alpha values, floating around on their own.I could do in the timeline, with symbols and motion paths, but it wouldn't really be random at all. I thought it would be better in ActionScript.Can anyone point me in the right direction here? If I could even find a tutorial or example of creating basic random movement that would be great. I did find this:...but this isn't what I want either. I don't want 'jerky' movement. I just want them to float in random directions. That code also doesn't seem to be very flexible
View 1 RepliesI try to animate a Movieclip (box or circle) thru a half ellipse path. Circle or ellipse path will be random.
View 1 RepliesI was taking this tutorial, >>LINK<< I want to change it from,
Code:
on (click) {
Duplicate Movie clip to,
Code:
onClipEvent (Load) {
That way once it load's it will duplicate the circle MC a random number of times. This circle MC is inside of another MC so it wouldnt be _root i want it to goto, it would be t_mc that I want it to look for it in.
So in the t_mc MC I put this code,
Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
i = i + 1;
duplicateMovieClip (t_mc.circle, "circle" + i, i);
}
And on the circle, I put this code,
Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
scale = (random(100) + 50)
this._x = random(250);
this._y = random(150);
[Code] .....
I'm trying to find a random x,y value that always is at the far end of a circle. Like if the circle has a diameter of 300 pixels and the centerpoint is at 50,50, I want a random position on the outskirts of that circle. Just cant seem to do it.
View 4 RepliesI am trying to figure out a way to randomly move a ball inside a bigger circle. The motion has to be smooth and completely random.
View 1 RepliesIt's a flash banner with a simple image, and then I want an xml of quotes that get pulled into the banner a mask scrolls in and then when it scrolls out, the words have changed to another random quote?When I mean scroll I mean the quote remains in place but a mask appears (from right to left) that covers the words, once the 'mask has got to the left side of the quote all the letters are gone - the mask the reverses (right to left) to reveal a new quote."Random Quotes from XML mask swap in Flash" isn't getting the right results!
View 5 RepliesI have a number of sound files hosted by a third-party.I would like to embed these on my site in some kind of player for streaming.However, I need to hide the source URLs of these files from my users.The point is to prevent users from discovering information about the third-party services we use, as some of this info is considered proprietary.There is obviously no way to do this in straight html. Most methods that I have seen of embedding audio would leave URLs easily discoverable by just viewing the page source.Is there a good way to keep this data hidden?
View 1 RepliesI've taken this problem far and wide, and it's a common one, too: Someone wants to use a mask inversely, hiding the masked object instead of revealing it. The only coded solution is to create a bigger "stage" mask with the inverse mask cut out. I understand the process, and have a slight grip on methods of executing it. Too bad it still will not work properly. I have employed two solutions to no avail. There was this simple option, and then there was this slightly harder option.
And where it works for some people, it is not working in my instance. If you look at my files, the masks cut out rather strangely. Is there something different about this situation that requires a different line of code, or am I simply using it wrong? To show you how they worked out, this is the goal: And this is what I ended up with after option 2: Because the object will be squishing and changing shape, creating the mask frame by frame would be a hassle. Changing the shape of a solid mask is a lot easier than moving the particular points of a "stage" mask manually.
I'm looking for a function for a random moving clip (devined x position) with lets say 5 secons interval, that is also functioning as a mask. But the clips that need to be masked should change in opacity in stead of vissible or not vissible.
View 1 RepliesI've been putting data into an array via XML, and then selecting at random an image string to load in a pic at random. But whilst doing this, I wanted to remove the String from the Array that I have just used, so I don't get repetition of the same image in the output. I initially thought that pop would remove the string I had just used - But of course it Removes the last value in the Array instead, which doesn't really help.
Ok - so how about randomizing the data once inside the Array, after it has been pulled in from XML!? That way I can load in the 'last' image, and then pop it out! Keeping a randomized selection of images each time 'it' is loaded
I have a magnifying glass image on my stage fixed on the right hand side, with the glass area of the magnifying glass cut out as a movie clip called glass_mc.
Now i also have a map to the left of that image. What im trying to do, is when you roll over the map, a zoomed version of that map will appear in the glass zoomed in or out depending on what zoom level i make it.
I have got it working using a rectangle but how would i go about placing the bitmap into the circle so the zoomed bitmap is displayed is as a circle shape.[code]...
What I'm wanting to do for my web site is do a animation on a button so that when the mouse cursor is over it a drop down list animation starts revealing more buttons. How would I go about doing this using Action script in the noobiest terms possible?
View 4 RepliesI am making an infinite menu that is fed by xml. my xml looks like this
<images>
<image>
<path>images/angel.jpg</path>
<url>circle.swf</url>
<caption>nr 1</caption>
</images>
Right now when you click on the image the circle.swf is loaded in the movie. actionscripting is like this
this is where the images are loaded:
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my issue is this, my users import an image with FileReference and I need to mask it and then send it to server.My problem is this: I'm be able do keep the filereference event and transfer the image data into my canvas. I'm be able to send to server the result of masking.But I'm NOT be able to mask the image that my users have load in my canvas.
View 2 RepliesI want to rotate a 2d object on its' y-axis but it won't make a complete circle. It just turns 90and then turns back the same 90 in the opposite direction. How can I make my 2d object make a full circle?
View 1 RepliesI have a Flash file for an advanced preloader that fills up a circle with an image as the file loads. The problem is that the readout on screen is the percentage loaded. I am trying to get it to read kilobytes loaded over the total number of kilobytes, with the image synchronized with the amount loaded. I can actually send you the .fla file via e-mail so that you can see what I have.
View 14 RepliesI'm wondering if I can use a image as a mask. For example, a shape of a dog as a mask. I want to achieve that load in the mask as a jpg or png from disk and apply it to a image. I tried it doesn't work. I don't know if there is something I did wrong.
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I recently tried using a png image from the library as a mask for a movieclip on stage. Much to my surprise, the mask is just a rectangle. I expected it to ignore the 0-alpha pixels in the image and just mask out the visible shape. I managed to come up with a work around, but I just wanted to know if it was possible to use a png image as a mask and get the shape of the visible image as the mask as opposed to the whole, rectangular image area. I totally thought it was.
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