I've a pencil on my stage. I would like to make an animation that the pencil writes. now the problem is i've to move the pencil along to the text and text should be visible according to the movement of pencil. I believe some readymade class would be available.
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bit of a noob at flash, so I've been having a bit of a difficulty in using the pencil/brush tool in drawing an animation. I set a keyframe, and paint a yellow stroke. Then i continue onto the next key. I then go back to the first keyframe, and want to paint a black stroke over part of the yellow stroke i made earlier.
after selecting this first frame (making the layer active), I go to change the stroke color of the brush to black but find that it now changes my yellow stroke (which I want to keep yellow) to black. I see that in selecting the frame, by default whatever strokes were made on this frame are also selected (which I don't want). So I'd like to know how do I avoid altering my previous stroke and still put a different colored stroke overlapping it on the same frame?
also is it possible to append a brush/pencil stroke to an old brush/pencil stroke?
Everytime a clip is being started the line var so = SharedObject.getLocal('mysharedobject', '/'); creates new mysharedobject instead of returning the reference to the existing one. What might be the reason for this?
View 2 RepliesI have trouble making a code that automatically writes the mouse's current x and y position as text every frame.
View 3 RepliesI tried something which was very simple in AS2, attaching dynamic movieclip and then attaching dynamic textfield inside that MC, which should update on progress event for loading an image, displaying percentage of loading done. Surprisingly, I have no problem with displaying accurate percentage info, my problem is this: most of the updates of textfield.text writes itself OVER the old text, instead of replacing it. Hehehehehe, LOL! You get it? It behaves like I create new textfield over the old one each time I update text. And I'm sure the code is not recreating textfield or MC, at least I'm positive thats not what I told it to do. So although I'm a bit new to AS3, and may probably doing something wrong, I'm getting more and more suspicious that this is a bug within flash itself, the thing that should not be.
It will be hard for me to recreate the code here, as I tried many different things in the meantime, so I'll just show bits of latest version which doesn't create totally dynamic MC and textfield, but attaches dynamically MC containing textfield which is inside library. The problem remains the same, and I'm sure I compile/upload latest swf version and clean browser cache everytime...Code://btw, timeline is public static MovieClip, which is like root,//and containerMC is public static MovieClip which is attached separately//Also if you see something without being declared as var, be sure its a static property declared in class
//func called after thumbnail button is clicked to open image
public static function prepareImageOpen(imgObj:Object)
{
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The reason I don't like the brush tool is because the brush line is not consistent in its thickness. For example, if I draw a curve with the brush tool, some of the line will be thicker than other parts of the line. The pencil tool has the same thickness all around, but unfortunately it is very thin.
View 1 Repliesis there a way to use the pencil tool (if u forgot what it exactly did, check the included image below) through actionscript, i searched the API for quite some time but couldn't it.
View 5 RepliesWhy is it that when I draw with the pencil tool, my lines get auto-reshaped? This is nice but it's not nice when I try to draw a stickfigure and it turns out completely wrong. Sometimes when I draw a circle with the pencil tool it becomes a square. But then again I don't use a drawing pad. I use a mouse.
Somebody told me: "Because Flash is really a vector drawing tool, not a bitmap drawing tool. It is *interpreting* your marks as pieces of a curve. That said I think there may be a setting to remove this smooth - in effect using more line parts for you drawing."
I'd like to use the mouse to sketch a basic curve which will then be 'auto-smoothed' when the mouse is released. This is exactly how the Flash pencil tool already behaves.
My question is: Is it possible to access this functionality with actionscript without having to reinvent the wheel?
Right now I only have this code, but I'm not using BitmapData.draw(). How can I write my code using BitmapData.draw()?[code]
View 2 RepliesWhen I select the pencil tool and draw a path it doesn't show it until I release the mouse button!
why?
I'm new to Adobe Flash CS4, and I was wondering why on earth my pencil tool delays when I draw with it? I will click, draw my line (which will be invisible), then when I let go of my mouse/pen, the line appears. Is it supposed to do that? Is there a way to fix it? I hate it, because I can't see what I'm doing. I downloaded all of the updates, and I have more than enough memory on my computer and my processor is more than fast enough. My paintbrush works fine, it's just the pencil.
View 1 RepliesWhen I draw something, the line doesn't show at all - I get a box outlining the area that I created the drawing in, but I can't see anything in the box itself. I tried previewing (View>Preview mode), but that showed as a hairline and I wasn't able select it to DO anything to it
View 4 RepliesWhen I am drawing with a pencil, the line looks like the shape I want to draw, but when I stop drawing, the shape reshapes to another shape whick looks like circles and rectangles = it does not look like the shape I wanted to draw. What is the problem?
View 1 RepliesI have been working for some time trying to remake Paint in flash. Question is: how to simulate a pencil drawing, my idea so far is to draw lines one after another.
View 6 Repliesi cant get the precise cursor to work on the pencil tool. I prefer to use the pencil tool when drawing things. I usually use the brush tool for painting in the lines , or sketching something out. I did went to preferences, but even so, the pencil still doesnt turn into a precise cursor.How do i turn the pencil tool into a precise cursor?
View 1 Repliesif you open microsoft paint and use the pencil tool you'll tell its not like the brush tool in a vector based program. vector based tools keep drawing the object until you let go of the mouse. but the pencil tool on the other hand seems like the canvas is divided up into a grid and where ever the mouse clips it knows what grid it belongs to and it draws the pixel in that grid. thats what it feels like. my question is say i open up a new as3 file, how would i make something like that?
taking into account of course i'd be adding a zoom function were you'll be able to zoom in up to 8 times. but thats something i assume i'd worry about later, as i should be able to do that no problem.
I have downloaded the trial version of Adobe Executive Suite CS5. In the Flash Professional CS5 program I am trying to do a drawing with the pencil tool. In the old version of Flash that I have (4.0) if I draw two lines that overlap, I can delete the line past the point where they cross. In this version I can't do that.It treats each line I draw as a separate item and won't combine them. I notice the properties panel says I am in Object mode which would be the reason. However I can't get it to go to merge mode, which is supposed to be the default.Is this because it's the trial version and not all features work in that version? My email address is[url].... and I can be phoned at 541 782-5904 (Oregon).
View 2 RepliesI have two SWFs, one is a 960x30px, the other is a 960x300px. I can get it to load the 960x300 from the 960x30, but I can't get it to load by sliding down underneath it, keeping it 960x300. I have written external JavaScript to move the content underneath down. It needs to be in Actionscripting 2.0 There is one correct example on my web site for Penn State with the girl. [URL]..
View 1 RepliesWhen using the Pencil Tool in Flash CS4 the line does not appear until after I've released the left mouse button or Wacom Pen nib. In other words you can write on a blank page the letter A but it only becomes visible after releasing the mouse button. It's invisible inkThe same problem occurs on my other machine with the only difference being an Intuos compared with Intuos 4 tablet - however it has same problem with a USB mouse, so it doest appear to be a Wacom issue.I've found a (kindof) fix.Open the Wacom Tablet properties panel either from the Start Menu or Control Menu - leave it open while using the Pencil Tool in Flash CS4 and it all works fine!I would be interested to know if anyone else has the same issue - might only be relevent to Windows 7 - 64 bit (i've not tested 32 bit). All was fine in Windows XP.Windows 7 - 64 bit (2009)Flash CS4 10.0.2Wacom Driver pro612-5_int - the new driver 613 made the pen go into Quick Point mode randomly so I'm using the older 612.5 drivers.
View 16 RepliesI have come against a problem whit this tutorial:i cant erase my lines now i have a bit more then just a pencil and a hole menu whit it,now i have even download the tutorial file and in the file it doesnt work eitheri use flash cs4.ow i dont whant to have anything complex like actionscript 3but still an solution and if it isnt to hard can i make a eraser to?
View 3 RepliesFlash 8, CS3 and CS4 on Windows XP. The issue is that seemingly randomly, when I draw with the pencil tool, the line starts to zigzag and squirm, even though my mouse/wacom tablet is moving steadily. It's little tiny squirms that go in all different random directions. It's pretty much impossible to draw anything when this is going on, and I usually have to do something else for a while and hope it's still not doing it when I come back.
View 1 Repliescan someone please help me or teach me how to make an animation where drawing is involved. its like this, im teaching preschoolers how to write letters and numbers. straight lines are easy to do but i could do the curve lines.
View 2 RepliesI like to know if you can animate and how,i like to know like for an example:Your done with fram 1,you make fram 2,you erase some stuff.And it shows like shadows of frame 1 so you can make it look good.Anything i can use for Flash CS4?
View 1 RepliesI don't know, whenever I try to make a sprite animation and I click on Trace Bitmap, it shows a loading bar, I wait and wait, and when about more then half is done loading, and a little is left, the screen freezes, and I cant even click cancel to stop the loading bar.
View 6 RepliesI'm trying to make an animation similar to the ones on these websites, scrolling images with a navigation bar to return to an image.
View 1 RepliesMy best friends birthday is around the corner, I want to make a flash animation by myself for her. But I dont know how to make it
View 2 RepliesI'm building a web site for a client. He asked me to make an animation on the homepage to show at start a world image / a globe (just the company logo) that "expands", like if it opens (from behind) into a plain map (which is another image) of the world and then show a text over it. I know and develop in PHP / MYSQL / Photoshop / JQuery effects/plugin but sadly (are we sure ? :P ) I know nothing about flash and actionscript.
So I was wondering if you could guide me to what to do, where should I start?Consider I video edit since 2003ish so I'm not lost here, I was thinking making a video about it and the show it on the page but doesn't feel like a good solution considering that the last frame should be static and more importantly the file size!. Is at least possible to do it in Flash?
I have an advantage over this situation though: I learn fast, so speak up :) what should I do?
I want to create a car animation using ActionScript code. The car is supposed to move repetitively between two end points. Someone mentioned using flag or addeventlistener to me, but I still don't have any clues.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to make a animation of a mc that comes on the stage with a descreasing blurX property. I've created a class of this mc in the library called txt_1. Here is the code:
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import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;
import flash.filters.BlurFilter;
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I do want make a Timer with "newTween();" method and I also know that i need to aply the "MOTION_CHANGE" to the blur array. I don't like those ready to use Tweeners, so that is not a option for me.I like to learn how things realy work.
