After reading over the Flash 10 file spec I want to play a bit with transformational matricies.If you have multiple MATRIX records in an SWF do the transforms compound each other?Or is the matrix a complete replacement of the previous matrix?Does flash operate similar to Postscript with gsave grestore like operators which allow the transformational matrics to be saved & restored?
View 1 RepliesI have an initial dollar figure, and it's growing by x every second. It started a few days ago, and I would like the Flash movie to keep up with it live, so when someone accesses that site, it shows the current amount.I could use getTime, but it shows the actual time, not the time elapsed. And I could use the Date object or setDate, but I'm not sure if it would do any good, either.
I guess what I need is the amount of seconds that have elapsed since the original date. Once I have that, I think the interest-compounding might be easier.
Has anyone here ever developed a function (or general library of relevant functions) that will allow one to find the inverse of a matrix? I've searched the forum archives, as well as the internet more generally, but haven't found anything. If anyone has some leads, I hope you'll pass them along.
If I don't hear anything within the next few days, I might try to develop something on my own, but I'd hate to do so if someone has already done the dirty work.
A solution to this problem would be very useful for 3-D work or anyone doing mathematical programming more generally.
Can you perfom regexp test on XML when filtering using the dot notation syntax?
I'm trying to test for a string pattern in the xml.child('folder') where folder can be 1 or more nodes xml.(folder.search(/ref/ig) < 0)
In Flash CS3 is it possible to copy a Keyframed and tweened animation of say a symbol growing larger and paste the Keyframes of the scaling transform onto a different symbol on a different layer so that this new symbol animates in the same way as the first symbol. When I try this with "ctrl alt c / v" the new symbol becomes the same as the old symbol and also moves to the same position too. I need to only copy the scale transform info in the Keyframes. Is this possible?
View 1 RepliesOur creative team produces SWF animations in the Flash CS5 authoring tool that we (the engineers) load at runtime into a project built using the Flex SDK. Animations that don't use the "3D rotation tool" work just fine.
Animations that use the 3D rotation tool give the following behavior:
MovieClips that have 3D tweens applied using the 3D rotation tool show up in the top-left corner of the stage as if they had no transform at all (i.e. as if their Matrix3D was being ignored, and their Matrix was identity) MovieClips that have normal 2D tweens animate properly Alpha and other non-affine properties tween properly
Both 3D and non-3D animations play fine when loaded by themselves in a browser tab or the standalone flash player. 3D is only broken when loaded into our code generated SWF.
So it seems that for MovieClips with 3D transformations applied in the CS5 authoring environment, those transformations aren't being applied / respected when the SWF is loaded by our code SWF.
This is my first foray into 3D, so I'm not sure what could be causing this, but here's what I've tested / checked / tried, all to no avail:
I've ensured that actionscript 3 and Flash Player 10 / 10.1 is selected in the authoring environment. I've tried loading animations into code SWFs built using Flex 4.1, 4.5, and 4.6 at Flash player versions 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 11 I've applied Matrix3D to the containers that load the SWF animations, both identity and rotated. I can see the rotated containers do work with 3D in perspective, so I know that my code SWF is 3D capable.
I develop failover fms application with server-side action script. But i have a problem that FMS can't continue to record stream with record mode "append".
Environment: FMS 4.5.1 r484 on CentOS 5.5/6.0
Goals:
I have 2 same data streams in failover application and republish primary to livepkgr application.
I have to store of last 10 hours intact recorded video (DVR).
Failover app logic:
1. I create NetConnection and NetStream to livepackager;
2. When primary stream is connected it attach the primary stream to livePackager NetStream
3. If primary stream is disconnected it reattach the backup stream to livePackager NetStream
Problem: I have testing environment. It stop primary stream every 5 min, and started primary stream 5 min after stopping.
It work's, fine, but after a few hours testing LIVEPACKAGER falls. It can't record a stream, NetStream.Record.Start -> NetStream.Record.NoAccess -> NetStream.Record.Stop
Search a solution: I try to relaunch recording process and have no success. try to shutdown/start livepackager, it's same, try to restart server, same no success.
I cant stream.clear() or record with mode "record" cause it clears my dvr cache, I cant clean stream directory in livepackager application.
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I know a matrix [x scale, y skew, x skew, y scale, trans x, trans y], and would like to get the angle in degrees.
View 2 RepliesI followed the tutorial for the Matrix Bitstream Effect here - [URL] utorials/Sp...ndex.shtml - like a slave, downloaded her code and compared, and I still can't see why my matrix will not become random. I put a bunch of copies of the movie clip of the "random" 0s and 1s on Scene 1, and they all slavishly turn to 1s and 0s at the same time, no randomness. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
View 10 Repliesi want to know how to do the matrix effect, and hten have some letters be highlighted to show my site logo.
View 1 RepliesHow do you create a matrix in flash?would it just be - var matrix(5,3,0);5x3 matrix filled with 0's?
View 5 RepliesI have done a matrix effect, but i have a problem. It is in front of the my logo.
How do i put it as a background, so it will be behind the logo?
Here is the script that i have used:
minLines = 35;
maxLines = 35;
minScale = 10;
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I'm really new to flash, with my background mainly in C++ and Java. But what I'm wanting to do is create a 5x5 button matrix to make a game.I've tried using the visual style of drawing the button and what not, but I really don't like it. I'd like to have like an array of button of object where I can track things like click count for each object. Is this possible with action script?
View 41 RepliesI'm trying to use the MatrixTransform class to RotateAroundInternalPoint but it requires that the object I'm trying to rotate has matrix points defined. My question is, is there a way to add Matrix points to a non Shape object so I can rotate it, or is there another class that is used to rotate movie clips around internal points?
View 6 RepliesMost often, questions are asked about how to scale a DisplayObject, and the answer is usually to use a Matrix.
My question is, how to you GET the scale of a Matrix (scaleX and scaleY)?
There's a Matrix.scale method to set the scaleX and scaleY, but it doesn't return a value, and no other properties exist to read it back.
The reason I ask, I'm using object burried deep down into a Display list, and each may be transformed. So I use the child object's sprite.transform.concatenatedMatrix getter, but am stuck at this point on how to read the scale from it.
I was wondering how you can use the matrix to increase the component of the canvas!
View 1 RepliesI have to use Flash CS3, so I can't use the properties rotationX, roationY and rotationZ.I have a movieclip, that looks like this. It is now flat, no 3D rotation or shearing But what I want is that this movieclip has a rotationX, or that it is a bit in perspective like this: As I said, I can't use rotationX, so I have been playing around with Matrix. But I can not get it right.Here is how I try to do it
myMC.transform.matrix = new
Matrix(1,0.15,0.35, 1, 0, 0);
And this is the result get the matrix right, or is there another way?
In the 4 * 5 array that makes up a colour matrix, what do ALL the values do? All I have found is basically this:
0, 0, 0, 0, 0 <-R
0, 0, 0, 0, 0 <-G
0, 0, 0, 0, 0 <-B
0, 0, 0, 0, 0 <-A
What does each thing do?
Unfortunately geometry is not my strong point and I am on a deadline. I am trying to determine if a textfield is larger than a displayObject and that it does not sit outside the x and y of said object. If it is larger, I need to scale it and make sure it is always in the confines of the displayObject space. On a side note, i need to scale the size of the text accordingly.
View 0 RepliesI am trying to copy an image.The green stuff on the first image is a mask(which is not set, its just there to show it)Everything works fine when I dont set a mask to an image (picture 1)But when I set the mask I get picture 2.What I want is to copy a part of the image which is visible when the mask is set. I know what size the mask and image are going to be so I can calculate the size of the area which i need to copy.This is the code I am using, image has registration point in the center, thats why i use matrix.translate (not sure if its the right way).Also there is no image scaling applied (there might be later), thats why I am using matrix.scale.
Code:
var _reflectionHolder:Sprite = new Sprite();
addChild(_reflectionHolder);
_reflectionHolder.y =_targetObject.y + _targetObject.height / 2 + 10;[code]......
I ran into an issue with an app that I have been working on.The application lets a user draw a rectangle, which base class is UIComponent, on an SVG Canvas. The user can rotate, skew, scale,flip horizontal and flip vertical the rectangle. Then they can drop an image into the rectangle.We just cloned the rectangles matrix and applied it to the image and the image would transform the same as the rectangle. Well now we have changed the way the app works.
Now we don't want the image rotated or flipped on the initial drop, and this is where I'm having trouble.I was wondering if there is a way to always find the true top left of any rectangle no matter what kind of matrix is placed on it. I can find the center of the rectangle but when a user flips the rectangle the center point is outside the rectangle.Instead of finding the center I would like to find the topLeft.I have tried several things. Like transform.pixelBounds, but this gives me big numbers like 2200 instead of 400. I have also looked at senocular.com but not sure that I understand it.I just need a dynamic way to always find the top left.
I have some problems with doing Matrix transformations on a MovieClip with a Textfield. As soon as I make a matrix transformation the textfield of the movieclip disappears. And I can not get it back.
View 1 RepliesDon't laugh... [URL] Should I use the Matrix to tween from figure 1 to 2 via ActionScript?
View 3 RepliesI'm building a website and I have a constant moving background that is red. Sometimes I need to change the color of the background. Now I Don't want to load new movies! Instead I would like to use the adjust color filter to change the color of the background. Now through research I have found out that you have to use the color matrix. Here is the code
import flash.filters.ColorMatrixFilter;
var myMatrix:Array = [1,0,0,0,0, // Red
0,1,0,0,0, // Green[code]....
My question is how can Apply this so I can fade it in? I assume I use an onEnterFrame to add it but how do I alpha it? It's kind of like this tut but not for a button.
Using a matrix I'm tyring to turn a square into an isometric tile by skewing it upwards (y -30) and skewing it to the right (x + 60). This does giv the desired angles but the sides of the square are stretched and become incongruent. Is there some way to lock the sides from stretching when skewed with a matrix? Pictures speak loouder than words, the shape on the right is what I get and below it shows what I want: [URL]
View 9 RepliesI'm trying to do just that. This is my class:[code]IIt seems the problem pops up every once in a while and never gets solved.
View 14 RepliesI have a website which I created for my classmates, there they can log in to see their notes (some sort of electronic diary).There is obviously login script php based.However I wanted to implement something cool like Matrix like login page ^^It should work like that:Black screen shows up, some green elements start to appear over the screen, some sonar, radar, neuron activity and in the middle of it login box.Thos moving objects aren't a problem however this box would be.I wanted there to have blinking green square (like in DOS) and after someone put a letter, the box should move one place to right and still blinking same with password filed.
View 1 RepliesI have the starting point of a rectangle, and the rotation of the line that I would like this rectangle to be parallel to. My initial thought was to create a Rectangle() then rotate it, but there doesn't seem to be an easy method rotate a rectangle. From this rectangle I create I can obviously get the four points, but I need these to be adjusted based on an angle of rotation that I pass it.
View 1 RepliesI need a matrix that has 4 rows and 7 columns with a movie clip that automatically reproduces every second. Ive looked all over the forums but theres nothing related to movie clips in it. [code]...
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to get a looping matrix and then randomly stop. I am still pretty new to coding in flash. I still have not tried to put the random stop in but here is what I have so fare and it is not working.
var matrix_array:Array = Array("0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "x", "y", "z", "?", "<", ">", "!", "`", "@", "#", "$", "%", "^", "&", "*", "(", ")", "-", "+", "|", "/", "=", "_", ",", "[", "]", "{", "}", ":", ";");
function() {
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