Re: FLASH: StarWars Scroll

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 07:22 PM 5/31/99 -0500, you wrote:

>

>Can't have gradient masks ?? reallY? are you sure?? absolutley postively?

>

>Quackedlyconfused

>


Here's a "fake gradient mask" trick Byron Canfield (formerly on this list)

posted. I think I referred to this yesterday but you may have missed it.


Let's say you want to have text that scrolls from the bottom of the screen

and gets smaller and has a gradient fade as it reaches the top. Choose your

gradient and create it in a rectangle that covers the scrolling area for

the text, making it fade toward the top.  Now place your scrolling text in

the layer above, and make IT the mask.  As the text scrolls, it acts as a

mask, revealing the gradient on the layer below.


To get the 3D perspective, you will need to create the text in another

program (I agree with other suggestions here to create it in a vector

program such as Freehand or Illustrator), so it has a true vanishing point

(perspective). Then you will need to tween it so that it not only moves

upward but also scales smaller as it moves.   At the end of the tween, the

text should be scaled so that the width of any line is the same as the

width of the line that occupied the same place on screen when the tween

started.  You can most easily match this up by using onion skinning.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.


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